. England's oldest hunt : being chapters of the history of the Bilsdale, Farndale and Sinnington Hunts, collected during several years. tongue. I have said this custom is notentirely obsolete. Though I have never seen it in its entirety,I do remember on one occasion being with the Farndalewhen they killed a fox near Hutton-le-Hole. The brush,mask, and pads were cut off, and a move was then made * I have a record of this custom being observed so late as 1883in the Sinnington Country. 154 Englands oldest hunt. to the inn in that village, where the pads were placed inglasses of liquor. This old c
. England's oldest hunt : being chapters of the history of the Bilsdale, Farndale and Sinnington Hunts, collected during several years. tongue. I have said this custom is notentirely obsolete. Though I have never seen it in its entirety,I do remember on one occasion being with the Farndalewhen they killed a fox near Hutton-le-Hole. The brush,mask, and pads were cut off, and a move was then made * I have a record of this custom being observed so late as 1883in the Sinnington Country. 154 Englands oldest hunt. to the inn in that village, where the pads were placed inglasses of liquor. This old custom is now, I fancy, peculiarto the Farndale Hounds, though at one time, as those whohave read The History of the Cleveland Hounds as atrencher-fed pack, will remember, the oldNimrods aroundRoxby were wont to hie to the parson or churchwardens ofthe parish in which they ran into their fox, claim the sum—usually five shillings, I believe—paid for the killing of thisclass of vermin, then enter the first inn and spend the head money over a fox-flavoured bowl of liquor. Allthis may sound somewhat barbarous, but we must bear in. mind that we live in another age, and I am afraid, so far asfox-hunting goes, a degenerate one. It may also be mentioned that like the Bilsdale sportsmen,those in Farndale, in their hare hunting days (which endedwith the introduction of keepers and the laying aside ofhis horn by Joe Duck) were wont to rescue from the houndsone or two hares, and sending them on to one of the daleinns ahead, draw on that way towards dusk and finish theday with hare pie. These were days when sport commencedas soon as daylight appeared, and the darkness havingended the day in the open, the company adjourned to theseductive turf fire at an inn and possibly whiled away thetime with song and legend till next morning, when notinfrequently they would have another hunt. Yet farmingpaid then, and the yeoman was a type of manhood the likeof which one rarely sees now. Nor does this
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