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huntfn,2^-ground of the Wilkinson family is of a stiff 

 "up-l\ili and down-dale character." Still the foxes 

 generally hang to the riverside, which can be reached 

 in half an hour from nearly all the covers, and point 

 away down a good scenting country for Yarm. Their 

 best cover is Fighting Cocks, which was laid down by 

 the present master with I4lbs. of seed to the acre, and 

 includes from eighteen to twenty acres of good gorse, 

 which can bear sifting pretty often during the season. 

 The blood of Hurworth Fury, crossed with that of 

 Badsworth Whynot, is well represented in the kennel 

 by Worker, Woodman, and Wonder ; but Buccleuch's 

 Traveller, who came in a picked ten-couple draught, 

 which Mr. Robinson gave John Glover when he re- 

 signed his hounds to Earl Wemyss, has done as much 

 good as anything to them when crossed with the 

 blood of Sir John Cope's Galopade and their Fury. 

 The Galopades were also to be found in those forty- 

 one couples, young and old, which Joe Mason sent off 

 with such sorrow from the station at Bedale to Quorn, 

 and which have for three seasons, more than kept up 

 the glowing hi Memoriani he pronounced at parting. 

 Ten couple of them are still in kennel, and if the 

 unhappy chop had not occurred, and his lordship had 

 carried out his intention of taking a picked pack for 

 the Gartree Hill fox, which beat him five times one 

 season, we will warrant that Treadwell would not have 

 left either Albert, Ravisher, Ringwood, Reveller, or 

 Chauntress behind. As for the Furies, we quite forget 

 whether Will was speaking of Freeman and Fencer 

 from Fanny, or Tomboy, Trouncer, Terrington, and 

 Trueman from her sister Famous, when he said, " They 

 tak sack pains and have such phick ; they fairly lift a 

 fellow's cap off his head with deliohty Famous was 

 remarkable in the manner of her death ; as she tried 

 to get at her puppies through a small window, and 

 fell into the meat boiler on the other side. 



The Badsworth Whynot, who generally got white 



