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village on the left, and ran smartly on to Buttress Hill, 

 where they were run out of scent on the dry fallows. The 

 other lot ran a ring round Ledsham Park, and were stopped. 

 Castle Hill, Micklefield Wood, Daniel Hartley, Westwoods, 

 Ringhay, Hayton Wood and Hazlewood were all drawn 

 blank, and hounds then went home after a very hard and 

 disappointing day. They hunted one hundred and ten days, 

 killed fifty-nine and a half brace of foxes, ran twenty-four 

 and a half brace to ground, were stopped thirty days and 

 had one blank day. 



1888-89. The weather did not interfere so much with 

 sport during the next season, when hounds were only kept 

 in kennel about a third of the time that they had been 

 in the preceding ones. There was a fair scent throughout 

 the season, and sport on the whole was satisfactory. I have 

 been unable to get particulars of any run during this season 

 in which hounds were out a hundred days, having been 

 stopped twelve days by frost. They killed fifty-nine and a 

 half brace of foxes, marked twenty-two and a half brace to 

 ground, and had not a blank day. 



1889-90. Still more propitious was the weather in the 

 season under notice, and taken on the whole it was a very 

 good one. They commenced cub-hunting on September 3rd, 

 and the regular season on Monday, November 4th, when 

 they had a good day's sport, of which I give Smith's account : 



' November 4th. Woodhall Bridge ; the opening meet. Found 

 ' a lot of foxes at Woodhall, and killed a brace. Took 

 ' another away, and ran to ground beyond Sicklinghall. 

 ' Found again in Stockeld Park ; had a nice thirty-five 

 ' minutes to Walton village, and hunted slow after to 

 ' Walton Wood to ground. Found in Smith's Whin. Ran 

 ' a ring nearly to Kirk Deighton, through Armitage's and 

 ' over the river, and stopped hounds. F"ound a nice show 

 'of foxes in Deighton Spring; took one away a twisting 

 'run to Kirk Deighton, and killed. A fair, good hard 

 ' day's sport.' 



