Related article: any hounds which are always under the care of a couple of whippers are missing, the second whipper-in has to scour the country to find them, but when they have to shift for themselves they soon find their way home. The Ullswater Hounds, by the way, killed their fox unaided, a long way from where they first hit on the line. Very many years ago the Quorn ran away from the field, killed their fox, and were shut up ifl a barn by a sporting farmer, vrinle the staff were riding all over the place to find them. Squire Farquharson's pack once broke away while they were on the way to covert, and had a capital thirty- five minutes by themselves, the same thing occurring about sixty years ago with the Badsworth ; while not so very long since the Croome, while out at exercise, swam the Buy Trandate river, and gave chase to a donkey, on which was mounted a boy. who had given a halloa. Accidents. — These have been rife as usual, and among the victims is Thomas Parker, first whipper-in to the North Cheshire Hounds. His horse came down at a fence, and Parker sustained a fracture of the thigh. With the same pack Col. Henry Tomkinson has come to grief and broken his shoulder, but the worst accident of all, because it terminated fatally, was that which befell a good soldier and sportsman, Col. Bernard Heygate, D.A.A.G. He was hunting in the Hundred of Hoo country ; his horse stumbled and fell, and the Colonel's skull was so badly fractured that he died on the following day without ever having regained consciousness. Col. Heygate had seen a good deal of service, and was extremely popular. The South Dorset Dispute- Two farmers in the South Dorset Hunt have " taken the law " of the men who assaulted them in the field, and . have come off victorious. It seems that the master had drawn a wood blank, and on seeing the two defendants, who were game-keepers, asked them if they had seen any foxes when the coverts were shot ? They replied that they had seen one. Whereupon the Messrs. Tory, father and son, who possibly possessed more keenness than dis- cretion, ventured the remark that the hounds might as well draw for an elephant as a fox. " That is how the row began." The keepers 56 baily's magazine. [January caught hold of the bridles of the horses, and ultimately dragged Mr. Tory, senr., from his horse, at the same time threatening to shoot the two farmers. Members of the hunt came to the rescue, and the Messrs. Tory were saved, and when they appeared at Wimborne as plaintiffs the other day the Bench fined one of the keepers five shil- lings and the other one shilling. Bport in Yorkshire. — Scent on the whole was moderate during the last days of November and the early days of December, and in Yorkshire there has been no- thing of exceptional brilliancy in the way of sport. Exceptionally brilliant runs are generally asso- ciated with " the brave North- easter," and easterly winds dur- ing the present season have been conspicuous by their absence. But if there have been none of those great runs which make his- tory, there has Trandate 200 Mg been some very enjoyable sport on occasion, and at times there have been hunting runs such as all lovers of the fox- hound who like to see him work as well as run, delight to recall. York and Ainsty.— The first day on the York and Ainsty record to which attention must be drawn was November 19th, the fixture being Ellerton Hall, the residence of that good sportsman and good farmer, Mr. Nutt. Aughton Rud- dings were drawn blank, and then Mr. Lycett Green went to Eller- ton Thorns, which scarcely ever fails to hold a fox, no matter how often Trandate 100mg it may be called upon. At first the fox ran down wind and on plough, and scent served only moderately, so that it was only at a slow pace that hounds hunted over a big country by Ellerton Common to Laytham Whin. Here the pace improved and hounds hunted cheerily up to Lord Her- ries' Fox Covert. Here they had hunted up to their fox, and they ran briskly through Cherry Woods to Seaton Old Wood, where the fox was viewed close in front of them and very tired. They ran on at a good pace to Seaton Mains, where there was at any rate one fresh fox, and there they were run out of scent. Time, 1 hour 10 minutes. A brace of foxes were found in a rough field abounding with patches of gorse, near Fogga- thorpe — a fine natural fox covert. They settled on to one, and it was evident Trandate Tablets that scent had im- proved since the morning, as the pace was a cracker as they ran first for Breighton Common, and then leaving Willitoft Cov- erts on the right, through Spal- dington Fox Covert. Thence they ran nearly to Gribthorpe and to within a short distance of the river Foulness, and there they turned sharply back by CunlinVs Plantation to Willitoft, where they were stopped after racing 37 minutes with scarcely a check to speak of. Ellerton Thorns was the start- ing point of the next good run to be chronicled, which took place on Labetalol Trandate December 10th, the fixture being Hagg. Bridge. The whole of the coverts in the neighbour- hood of Melbourne were drawn blank, and it was nearly 2 o'clock when a fox was holloaed away from Ellerton. At first they only ran a ring, but it was a wide ring over a big country, and it was a very enjoyable one, the line taken being to the Laytham road and then back by Aughton to the covert. The fox passed straight through the covert and hounds hunted at a fair pace by Aughton, skirting Aughton Ruddings to Harlthorpe. Here they turned left-handed by the Hull and Selby railway, and ran on to Foggathorpe Station, where they crossed the line and pointed for I899-] " OUR VAN. »» 57 Gribthorpe. A left-hand turn brought them to the Foggathorpe Drain, which they crossed and