184 HISTORY OF THE BRAMHAM MOOR HUNT. 



' Away towards Cowthorpe, then towards Armitage's 

 ' planting, back to Ingmanthorpe, and killed. Found in 

 ' Bickerton Spring, ran to the Loft, over Wighill Park, 

 ' through AValton Wood, past Hall Park Springs to Ing- 

 ' inanthorpe, and killed at Kirk Deighton. Fifty-five 

 ' minutes' pretty gallop.' 



The season was brought to a close on Thursday, April 

 loth, vi^hen they met at Cross Roads, Clifford Moor, at eight 

 o'clock ; but though they found plenty of foxes they could 

 do nothing with them as the ground was so dry. During 

 the season, the most open on record, — as they were never 

 once stopped by frost and only once by fog, — they hunted 

 one hundred and twenty-four days, killed fifty-two brace of 

 foxes, and ran thirty-seven brace to ground. 



1884-85. The summer of 1884 was a very dry one, and 

 when hounds began the cub-hunting season the ground was 

 so hard that in some countries there was a talk of stopping 

 till rain came, and I believe in one or two cases this was 

 done. The Bramham Moor commenced their season on 

 August 26th, making a start from the kennels at the early 

 hour of 2-30 a.m., the venue being Byram. They did not 

 get many foxes on foot, but they managed to kill a cub. 

 Then a wonderful thing took place, for they went out three 

 mornings running, and never killed. They got hold of one 

 on the fourth morning (the fifth they had been out) at West- 

 woods, after a very hard morning's work, and after being 

 disappointed with their first fox ; and then the cub-hunting 

 went on merrily enough, hounds killing their foxes well. 

 Foxes, however, were not good to find, and the reason of it 

 was that during the dry summer they had got into the way 

 of living in the drains, which, of course, were comfortable 

 enough. On one occasion they ran a fox to ground in a 

 drain, and bolted Jive. 



They commenced the regular season at Bramham Park 



