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season to a close at Beckwithshaw Bar, whence they had a 

 fair clay's sport. They found in Harlow Carr, and drove 

 their fox out over the Harrogate road straight to Birk 

 Crag ; but they soon had him in the open again and ran 

 nicely, pointing for Killinghall Moor. There he was headed, 

 and they made a short turn to Birk Crag and Beckwithshaw, 

 and back again to Birk Crag, where they ran into him after 

 a smart gallop of thirty minutes. A second fox was found 

 in Killinghall, and him they took away smartly through 

 Birk Crag and Beckwithshaw and over the road into 

 Haverah Park. Here they made a sharp turn to the left 

 over the wall on to Rigton Moor, where they ran a ring, and 

 then over the ditch on to Stainburn Moor, where they killed. 

 Almscliff Whin held a fox, and him they ran by the Crag 

 and through Baily's Whin to Huby, and there they lost. 

 Bates's Wood, at Pannal, provided the last fox of the day. 

 He went away at once in a westerly direction to the edge 

 of Moor Park, where they made a sharp turn to the left, 

 and crossed Rigton Moor into Almscliff Crag, where the 

 fox undoubtedly went to ground, as though hounds had a 

 line over the moor it was undoubtedly a stale one. 



The season was a satisfactory one, and throughout sport 

 was good and scent served fairly. They hunted one hundred 

 and nine days, were stopped by frost twenty-nine days, killed 

 sixty brace of foxes, and ran thirty-one brace to ground. 



1886-87. — -The following season was a good one, though 

 again there were many disappointments owing to the 

 weather. Indeed, perhaps such a series of disappointing 

 seasons scarcely ever was known as that which is treated 

 of in this chapter. 



The opening day was on Monday, November ist, the 

 fixture being North Deighton. Deighton Spring held foxes, 

 and with one of them they raced away smartly to the covert 

 at the opposite side of the road, and pointed for Stockeld 



