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
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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
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Gribthorpe. A left-hand turn
brought them to the Foggathorpe
Drain, which they crossed and