200 HISTORY OF THE BRAMHAM MOOR HUNT. 



to the right, they crossed the railway again, pointing for 

 Spacey Houses. Holding to the left they ran through 

 Spacey House Whin, and over the edge of Spofforth H^iggs. 

 Here they turned to the left, and ran back to the Harrogate 

 and Wetherby railway, which they crossed and recrossed 

 three times, and then, swinging to the left, they ran down 

 to the Crimple Beck, and alongside of it for three miles, 

 sometimes at one side and sometimes at the other, the pace 

 being first-rate now. Bearing to the right they crossed the 

 Harrogate and Spofforth road, and ran by Poorest Moor to 

 the Knaresborough railway, where they got a view at their 

 fo.x, and rolled him over within a quarter of a mile of 

 Starbeck station, after a sporting" run of an hour and ten 

 minutes. 



1894-95. The most disastrous season, perhaps, so far as 

 the weather was concerned, was this one. For eight weeks 

 hounds were never out of the kennel, and they were stopped 

 altogether thirty-four days. It was, however, a good season 

 for sport, especially after the storm. Hounds hunted ninety- 

 five days, the shortest season I have had to record ; they 

 killed fifty-one brace of foxes, and ran thirty-seven brace 

 to ground. 



Of two runs in this season I am able to give a brief 

 account from a letter written by Mr. George Lane Fox to 

 a friend : — 



'My hounds,' says he, 'people think, have had very good 

 ' sport. You will have heard of the run from Parlington 

 ' Hollins to the Electric Railway Station, killing close to the 

 ' engine at Gipton Wood. Fifty minutes ; one check. But 

 'the run was on December 3rd, from the little covert near 

 ' Weeton station to Riffa. Left Leathley and Farnley on 

 'the left, passed Lindley Hall, turned from the wood, and 

 'ran straight for Almscliff; and leaving North Rigton on 

 ' the right, rattled along the valley, and killed at the quarry 



