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their Saturday country, December
2nd, finding them at Old Bietch-
ley with a number of well-known
faces to welcome them. Nellie's
Spinney was tenantless. Had it
been too much disturbed of late ?
But in some gorse at Cow Bottom
Farm a stout fox was forthcom-
ing, and, having used every
endeavour to shake off the hunt
amongst the intricacies of Bletch-
ley, set his head for Salden.
Found a substitute in Lord
Orkney's coverts, and the hunt
went on to Muresley and The
Potash before he, too, evaded pur
suit. Returning to Villiers Gorse
they found again, ran by Salden
to the Whaddon Woodlands, but,
eschewing their slielter, passed
them on the right, and, threading
Narberries to Little Horwood
Park, nearly reached Rodimore
ere they doubled back into the
Whaddon country. Decidedly a
good day.
Yorkshire. — Though there has
not been any great run, such as
goes to the making of hunting his-
tory, during the first few weeks of
the season, there has been an ex-
cellent average of sport up to the
stoppage which the frost caused
on the nth of last month, and
really bad scenting days have
been few and far between. Day
after day, all over the country,
hounds have had good hunting
runs, with occasional bursts, the
severity of the pace in which has
satisfied even the man — and he is
bad to satisfy — Buy Norethindrone Acetate whose estimate of
every run is guided by the speed
at which he gallops. It is difti-
cult, when one good day succeeds
another and when they are pretty
nearly on a level, to make a selec-
tion which shall please those who
have joined in the fun, and per-
haps the best policy is to give an
account of a few typical days,
without weighing the merits up
to a nicety.
The Bramham Moor. — Bram-
ham Moor has been showing good
sport of late, and two good runs
from that famous covert, Hatton
Thorns, certainly deserve a chro-
nicle. The first of these took
place on Friday, November 17th.
when a thick fog was accompanied
by a strong white frost — the first
foretaste we have had of winter.
The fixture was Weighill Park, but
the morning's work does not call
for notice. The afternoon £oz
was found in Hutton Thorns, and
seemed reluctant to leave the cov-
ert, for it was fully forty minutes
before he was holloaed away.
Scent, which had been bad in
covert, showed a marvellous im-
provement when hounds were once
out in the open. They ran at a
capital pace over the Rufibrth
Road, and crossing the Marstoa
drain, which, as usual, held mea
and horses, they raced over Mar-
ston Moor, and crossed the Attar-
with Lane to Wilstrop Wood.
Through the wood they ran with-
out a check, and, turning left-
handed, pointed for Skewkirk,
and then swinging still more to
the left they left Tockwith village
on the right, and checked at the
end of twenty -seven minutes.
They were soon going again, but
at a slower pace, and they hunted
on over the Tockwith Lane and
over Marston Hill, where they
checked again and where they
probably changed. They Norethindrone Acetate Tablets ran oi
nicely nearly to White Sifc
Whin, and then turned to th
right, crossing Moor Lane an
hunting round Marston village t
within a field of Hutton Thomj
where they lost the fox. It wa
a good hunting run of an hour
the pace excellent up to the checi
at Tockwith town end.
More satisfactory was the secon
run from Hutton Thorns, whid
took place a fortnight later. Th
fixture was Tockwith, and ther
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was a sharp burst of ten minutes
from Swales Rash to the Borough-
bridge Road to b^n with, fol-
lowed by some pretty hunting
over the sticky ploughs down to
the Nidd, where the fox was given
up, as he had crossed the river.
Again was Hutton Thorns the
starting place of the afternoon
run. Hounds ran fast up to Ruf-
forth, where the fox made a sharp
turn to the left and crossed the
Rufforth Road into Rufforth Hail
Gardens. Then came a flock of
sheep, who, of course, caused
trouble, but hounds worked nicely
through them, and hunted on
over the Atterwith Lane to with-
in a couple of fields of Welstrop
Wood. Here they checked, and
there was any amount of holloa-
ing, but Smith kept hounds' heads
down, and they worked well
through their difficulties. They
tamed to the left and ran on,
leaving White Sike Whin to the
left, over the Tockwith lane.
The fox was constantly viewed,
and there was some vociferous
holloaing, but Smith would have
Bone of it, and hounds kept hunting
on nicely. They ran over Marston
Hill and through a comer of Mar-
ston Whin, and then came a check
at a critical moment. Smith was
patience itself, and his hounds
working for him to perfection,
they hit off the line in a few
minntes, and hunted nicely down
to Marston village. Hem they
I checked at some farm buildings,
and there were all kinds of ru-
.rooars as to the fox having gone
forward. Smith, however, took
little notice of rumours, and having
qokkly made the ground good for-
ward, cast his hounds round the
bnn buildings, where they hit
him oflF, and finally killed him in
the garden. It. was a beautiful
banting run of one hour and fifteen
minutes — ^indeed, it was hunting
seen to perfection.
The Topk and Ainsty. — The
York and Ainsty Thursday country
has not of late years furnished that
sport which was wont to be asso-
ciated with it thirty years or more
ago, but it seems by no means un-
likely that there will be once more
a great historic run from it before
the season ends, whilst there have
already been some excellent gal-
lops in the neighbourhood of Rib-
ston and Allerton. The best day
they have had on this side of the
country was on Thursday, Novem-
ber 23rd, when the fixture was
Allerton Park. The morning be-
gan with a fast gallop from Broad-
field, through the Dale and up to
the hilltop, to the left of Oustburn
Workhouse, where they checked,
and after hunting on for other ten
minutes, they were run out of
scent. Then they had a nice forty
minutes from Grassgills by Mar-
ton and Grafton to Low Duns-
forth, where the fox got amongst
the cottages, and his life was saved
by some information which put
hounds on to a fresh fox which
had been gone some time. The
run came late in the day from
Ribston Wood. At first the fox
hung to the covert, and, when he
did break, hounds only hunted
slowly down to Cattal Belt. Then