ig6 HISTORY OF THE BR AM HAM MOOR HUNT. 



specimens of a good season. On the 27th of that month 

 they met at Bickerton Bar, and after drawing Marston Whin 

 and Wilstrop Wood blank, they found two, if not three, 

 foxes in Hutton Thorns. One of these they soon had in 

 the open, rattHng him along at a good pace in the direction 

 of Marston, but bending to the right they carried a good 

 head through Wilstrop Wood and on to Tockwith. Leaving 

 that village to the right they raced on over a big country 

 to Marston Whin, through which they drove their fox without 

 a pause, and they ran into him two fields farther on, after 

 a very pretty forty-five minutes. A second fox was found 

 in Nova Scotia, and at a good pace they ran through Bilton 

 Wood and on to Bickerton Bar. Here the fox made a short 

 turn to the right past Bilton Hall, and pointed towards 

 Wighill, hounds finally marking him to ground at Healaugh. 

 My notes say that these were two very good gallops. 



1891-92. A lot of satisfactory sport with a good serving- 

 scent, is Smith's opinion of this season, the epitome of which 

 is as follows : — They hunted one hundred and five days, 

 killed sixty-five brace of foxes, ran twenty-seven and a half 

 brace to ground, and were stopped twenty-six days. 



One run this season was a typical Bramham Moor run, 

 and was one of the best I saw that season. Indeed, take it 

 all round, it is a run which stands out as the ideal of what 

 a run should be, for hounds hunted steadily, and raced when 

 scent served. They met at Thorp Arch on Friday, November 

 6th. A fox was hallooed away from the Hall Wood as 

 hounds were moving off, and at first there did not appear 

 to be much scent, for hounds had to work hard for the 

 line. They hunted on steadily and patiently till they crossed 

 the Harrogate and Church Fenton railway at the Trust 

 Farm, and then the pace began to improve, and they were 

 soon going at a good hunting-pace along the Wharfe side 

 to Esedike. Here they checked, and there was a halloa 



