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forward to Shire Oaks. Hounds soon picked up tlie line, 

 though there was some suspicion that we had left our fox 

 in some thorns at Esedike. They ran a ring round Shire 

 Oaks, and soon made it too hot to hold the fox, forcing him 

 out in the direction of Wighill village, which they left on 

 the left hand, pointing for Walton. Bearing to the right, 

 they left Wighill Park on the left and ran hard to Duce 

 Wood. Here there were two or three foxes, and Smith 

 hovered a moment to see whether his fox was left in the 

 wood. But hounds came out carrying a rare head, and it 

 was ' catch them who can ' as they crossed Catterton Drain, 

 which was not jumped by everyone, and raced along to 

 Catterton Spring. The pace slackened a little as they ran 

 on parallel to the old Roman road to Bilbrough Whin, but 

 it was quite fast enough for those who were there, and horses 

 began to jump short and falls came with nearly every fence 

 up to Ainsty Spring. From here two or more foxes went 

 away, and hounds were soon away with one over the 

 road, by the Wild Man, and into the York and Ainsty 

 country. Leaving Street Houses to the left, they ran nearly 

 to Colton Hagg House. There they turned left-handed, 

 and hunted slowly past Bilbrough village (quite fast enough 

 for the few who were left, though) to Askham Richard, and 

 then, with a left-hand turn, back to Ainsty Spring, where 

 they ran into him after a capital run of three hours. Very 

 few were there when the fox was eaten, and a large part of 

 the field was left at Wighill village. 



1892-93. 'A real good season, and capital work for 

 ' hounds,' says Smith of the next one, though for one reason 

 or another, hounds were not out so many days as they had 

 been in the previous one. They hunted ninety-nine days, 

 killed sixty-eight brace of foxes, ran twenty-four and a half 

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



A good day's sport in this season, though it must by 

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