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Title: England's oldest hunt : being chapters of the history of the Bilsdale, Farndale and Sinnington Hunts, collected during several years
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Fairfax-Blakeborough, J. (John), 1883-
Subjects: Horses Fox hunting -- England History
Publisher: Northallerton : Author, Fox House, Carlton-in-Cleveland Middlesbrough : Jordison
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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on the stone-floored kitchens of their homes, to the strains
of a melodeon. On then, do they dance, till four o'clock or
after, then an hour or twos sleep brings with it daylight
and the sound of the horn—for hounds always meet on the
morning following one of these dances. There is poetry in
all this, and the social side of hunting in this old-world land
savours of the past just as does the sport itself. Indeed,
Sir A. E. Pease told us in his book on the Cleveland
Hounds :—


"Anyone who would see last century foxhunting at the present
day, and how the rough countries of Yorkshire were hunted generations
ago, cannot do better than have a day with these old trencher-fed
packs, for the Farndale and Bilsdale countries have not felt those
changes that time has wrought in other parts.
May it be long before the conditions alter, say I."

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that hounds were lost to view and were not recovered till next morning.
Two seasons ago the Bedale pack wes lost on the moors near Masham,
and their whereabouts not known till a wire came from Pateley Bridge
the following day.
Text Appearing After Image:
SIR A. E. PEASE
(Author of "The Cleveland Hounds as a Trencher-fed Pack,"
whose book is much quoted in this volume).

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