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no doubt, upon occasion, caused master and huntsman to 

 lose their tempers when scent did not serve. For they were 

 hard-riding men, those same Bkies, though they found their 

 match amongst the country squires of the West Riding. 

 And, by the way, may not the hard and straight riding 

 which prevails in the Bramham Moor, York and Ainsty, 

 and neiohbourinp; countries, be in a gfreat measure attributed 

 to the friendly rivalry which has existed between ' the 

 ' soldiers' and their civilian friends, a rivalry which is as 

 ancient as hunting itself .'' And so may it long continue, 

 provided always that hounds are not overridden, and masters' 

 patience is not tried too much. 



The Olivers of Lotherton were good men and true, 

 'uncommon fond of hunting,' and found worthy rivals in 

 the Elands of Kippax, and the Ramsdens of Ledstone. 

 The brothers. Stanhope and Martin Hawke, were also 

 regularly to be found at the Bramham Moor fixtures, and 

 always together. The elder of the two bred and owned 

 that good racehorse. The Marquis, who won the Two 

 Thousand and St. Leger of 1862, and succeeded to the 

 title as fifth Lord Hawke. He was a very fine horseman, 

 with the best of hands, and always with hounds. His 

 brother Martin, however, never had much of an eye for a 

 country, but he was hard enough, and would go anywhere 

 that Stanhope, whom he always selected as his pilot, went. 

 An eye to country, however, it was not his lot to possess. 

 He was killed in the hunting-field, his horse fallino- across 

 some rails over which he had followed his brother. This 

 sad accident took place with the York and Ainsty hounds 

 on the 19th of November, 1857. It is not a little curious 

 that in the Badsworth Hunt song there should run a verse 

 to the following effect : — 



' And next him, on Morgan, all rattle and talk, 

 Cramming over his fences comes wild Martin Hawke, 



