CHAPTER VII. 



FROM 1885 TO 1896. 



The ten seasons which the present chapter covers will 

 necessarily be briefly treated, as but little has been written 

 about the Bramham Moor during the period, and information 

 is but scanty, especially during the earlier portion of the time. 



1885-86. The season commenced on September 7th, 

 when the old hounds were sent on to Byram, and had a 

 rare morning amongst the cubs, getting hold of three, scent 

 serving well. Two days afterwards they were at Byram 

 again, as there was so much corn standing in other parts of 

 the country that they could not hunt elsewhere. Byram 

 answered well to the call made upon it, and again they 

 found cubs, one of which they killed. 



On November iith they had a good day. They met at 

 Wescoe Hill, and found in Riffa, runninof hard in covert for 

 half an hour. Then they forced their fox out into the open, 

 and ran him fast by Lindley Wood, killing at Snowden Carr 

 after a fast fifty minutes. A second fox was found in Rouge- 

 mont Carr, and him they hunted up to North Rigton. Here 

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