FROM 1885 TO i8g6. 20 1 



' between Thurtle's Whin and Pannal. Fifty-five minutes. 

 ' I hear all the horses were fairly beat. One or two of the 

 '"thrusting scoundrels" say it is a disgrace to their horses 

 'and the Hunt. My old-fashioned opinion is that it was a 

 ' real good run, and most creditable to the hounds. They 

 ' were never checked and never spoken to. Nobody could 

 'touch them, even the roadsters were beat.' 



1895-96. This season, the last of which 1 shall have 

 to speak, was a remarkably open one ; but it was also a 

 most unfortunate one, for that fell disease, mange, had broken 

 out amongst the foxes, and as a matter of course sport 

 suffered. Foxes were bad to find ; they had two blank 

 days, and frequently drew most of the day before they did 

 find. But, notwithstanding these various drawbacks, they 

 had some excellent runs. They hunted one hundred and 

 nine days, killed thirty-five and a half brace of foxes, and 

 ran thirty-two brace to ground, and they were only stopped 

 four days. 



Perhaps the run of the season was that which they had 

 in the first week of the New Year. The fixture was Tock- 

 with, the date, Friday, January 3rd. They drew Wilstrop 

 "Wood and all the coverts in the neighbourhood of the meet 

 blank, and were proceeding to draw Hutton Thorns when 

 an outlying fox was viewed a field from the covert, and so 

 good a start did they get with him, that he was only some 

 twenty yards in front of them when they entered Hutton 

 Thorns. He made the best of his way, though, and had 

 put some little distance between his pursuers and himself 

 before he broke at the Rufforth end of the covert. Crossing 

 the road he pointed for Marston station, but after crossing 

 the drain they turned to the left and ran past Marston 

 village and by Clump Hill, pointing for Marston Whin, which 

 they left half a mile to the left, and crossing the Wetherby 

 road ran across Fairy Carrs and over the hill between Nova 



