Related article: vol. lxxi. — no. 470. the middle of the- month. Indeed all over there seems to have been a general looking up of sport, and there has been scent enough to stick to the travelling foxes which generally show such good sport at this season of the year. The York and Ainsty. — On February 18th the York and Ainsty had one of those old-fashioned Sessay Wood days of which so many find a record in the annals of the hunt. The fixture was Sessay village, the morning dull, " or a nipping and an eager air " from the east. Fullan's Whin was drawn blank, but true to its tradi- tions Sessay Wood held a stout straight -necked fox who was off Buy Cheap Purim the moment hounds spoke to him, which they did as soon as ever they were in the wood. They raced along the railway side to Throstle Nest, and then, crossing the line, for eighteen glorious minutes they raced along by Coldharbour and Woolpott to Highthorne when they over-shot the line and checked for a moment, it was for a moment only; though when hounds were set going again the fox ran the road near Carlton Husthwaite for some distance, thus enabling him to get a good start, and this eventu- ally saved his life. They ran on hard Order Purim by Beacon Banks and New- burgh Park to Pond Head Wood, where they checked again for a moment; they were soon going again over Yearsley Moor and into Heronsew Gill, where they changed foxes. The fresh one they ran by Newburgh Priory and across the Kirby Moorside Railway, past Byland Abbey and Wass, and through Wass Bank on to Ample- forth Moor, whence they ran back into the wood. There were now two if not three foxes on foot, and as horses were tired Mr. Order Purim Online Lycett Green stopped hounds. They had been running two hours, most of the time at a fast pace, and, Purchase Purim taken 21 302 BAILY Buy Purim S MAGAZINE [AlRIL on the whole, it was one of the best runs the York and Ainsty has had this season. On February 20th they met at Sutton Hall, and after chopping a fox in a plantation joining Gaping Gorse Lane, they found in Suet High Carr, and soon had the fox out on the north side. Something in the nature of false information prevented hounds getting on the line at first, but happily little time was lost, and they were soon run- ning at top pace over White Carr Ings and Brown Moor, by Corn- borough Villa to Cornborough Hall pointing for Whenby. Turn- ing left-handed they left Far ling ton Grange and ran over Marton Lord- ship pointing for Crayke. Bearing to the left they crossed the Foss and left Stillington on the right and ran by Moxby to Sutton on the Forest, close to which village they were run out of scent, after a capital run of forty-eight minutes. It seems that the fox had taken temporary shelter in a pig stye, and this saved his life. Two other runs, which, however, contained little incident, served to make up a good day's sport. Lord Middleton's. — On Feb- ruary 25th Lord Middleton's met at Hutton Hall. After a sharp spin with an outlying fox they killed him, and then they had a very fast thirty-five minutes from Hildenby, marking the fox to ground near Whitwell. Then they went to Old Malt on Whin, where they found, and after a turn twice round the covert, they drove the fox out into the open, and raced him down to the Der- went, which they crossed at Reighton Bridge. Kirkby Mister- ton was left on the right, and then raced over Riseborough Hagg, and leaving Sinnington village by the left, they ran through Dawson Wood, and by Cropton to Apple- ton le Moor, where they fell in with the Sinnington, and the two packs joined. They were soon stopped and separated, as they had doubtless changed foxes. It was a twelve-mile point, time one hour twenty-five minutes, and it was undoubtedly the run of the season. Vacant Countries. — When the hunting season of 1899-1900 opens there will be, it is probable, more than the usual number of new masters seen at the head of estab- lishments which change hands at the end of the season. Mr. Dawkins gives up the Dulverton pack, hunting in a wild sporting country which should not long go begging, as there must be several men who, though unwilling to be bound by the ties and worries of a fashionable country, long for one wherein plenty of sport can be seen at comparatively small cost. Ill- health, one very much Buy Purim Online regrets to hear, necessitates Mr. F. T. Wilson giving up the Ledbury country at the close of the present season. During the season 1896-7 he hunted with great success the North Herefordshire country, wherein he was very popular, and on the resignation of Mr. George Thursby the Ledbury men es- teemed themselves fortunate in securing so good a sportsman to take the affairs of the hunt into his hands. During the present season Mr. Wilson was obliged to go abroad for the benefit of his health, and returned last month ; but his medical advisers say that he Purim Online will not be* able to hunt during next season, so he has no alterna- tive but to resign. In the Bicester Purchase Purim Online country some- thing like a shock was the result of the intention of Lord Cotten- ham to give up the mastership, the duties of which he has so well discharged since he took office in 1895 on the resignation of Mr. P. Colville Smith. Although his 1899] <* OUR VAN. 303 lordship's mind was, it is said, made up somewhat suddenly, there are one or two persons who appear to have anticipated the intelligence a good three weeks before the announcement was made public about the 2nd or 3rd of March. Such a pleasant , country will not find it difficult to obtain another master, though changes are always to be lamented. When Mr. Drake gave up the country in 1851, he was but the third master the Bicester had had during three-quarters of a cen- tury, John Warde and Sir Thomas