198 HISTORY OF THE BRAMHAM MOOR HUNT 



no means be thought that it was the best, or even the best 

 in the Friday country, was that on March 3rc^, when the 

 fixture was the Wild Man. They found their first fox in 

 Bilbrough Spring, and at racing pace they ran him past the 

 hall to Angram village, where he took refuge in a drain. 

 Here they left him, but they had not got a couple of hundred 

 yards away from the drain mouth before he bolted of his 

 own accord, and they ran hard for a few minutes and again 

 marked him to ground in a rabbit-hole midway between 

 Askham and Bilbrough, whence they speedily scratched him 

 out and killed him. Then they went to Collier Hagg, and 

 in the New Plantation adjoining they found. Running- 

 first to Hutton Hall, they worked through the gardens and 

 over the road, and thence hunted a somewhat twisting line 

 to Marston Whin. Not much time was spent here, and 

 they were soon running at an improved pace to Hilton, 

 and over the Park to the York and Wetherby road, 

 which they crossed. Leaving Tockwith on the right they 

 ran down to Munster Hagg, and bearing right-handed all 

 the time, passed Broad Oak down to the banks of the 

 Nidd. They ran merrily along the grass on the river banks 

 to Cattal, and over Nether Carr and past Stank House to 

 Tockwith village. Here they made a short turn back, and 

 ran parallel to the road to Munster Hagg, and then crossing 

 the Bickerton and Cattal Lane they ran on to Ligmanthorpe 

 Willow-garth, and pulled their fox down on the beck side 

 between that covert and the Ingmanthorpe New Plantation. 

 It was a pretty hunting-run of two hours, in which a lot of 

 good country was crossed, and it made up a good day. 



1893-94. Wild weather and at times a catchy scent were 

 the chief characteristics of the season now under notice, but 

 frost did not interfere so much with sport as it had done in 

 the few preceding seasons, hounds only being confined to 

 the kennel eleven davs. Thev hunted one luuKlred anil one 



