

CHAPTER X. 



Some well-known Supporters. 



' Each tongue relates, with ardent breath, 



'Midst loud applauding cries, 

 Who came the foremost to the "death," 

 And gained the noble prize. 



' How Dick, the parson, jolly soul ! 

 Did dash through thick and thin ; 

 And Tom, the huntsman, reached the goal, 

 With Jack, the whipper-in.' 



With ' the System of Meynell,' which, as I have shown, was 

 so closely itdentified with the early history of the Bramham 

 Moor Hunt, was also introduced that hard, not to say jealous 

 riding, which may be said to have developed under the rule 

 of the first great master of the Ouorn. As in the kennels at 

 Wothersome, Harewood, and Bramham was to be found one 

 of the best packs in England, so in the field were to be found 

 some of the hardest riders and the choicest spirits of their 

 time. To most of them nothing came amiss. They were 

 equally at home over the stone walls and moors of the west 

 as they were over the drains of the Wighill and Selby 

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