122 FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



Roofed House; seventeen couples of bitches; drew 

 Worsall Whin; ran hard for thirty-five minutes 

 and lost him at Kirklevington. Drew Pease's 

 Plantation ; very fast twenty - five minutes to 

 ground. Went off to draw Staindale ; capital 

 gallop for thirty minutes to ground at Deighton. 

 A screaming scent all day, and my diary says, ' A 

 very good day's sport/ '' 



My Hunt Secretary was Mr. A. Park of 

 Newbus Grange, who kept a watchful eye on the 

 coverts, the finances, and other affairs of the Hunt, 

 and I must not forget the names of one or two old 

 Hurworth friends of those days who have since 

 passed away. 



There was Tom Wilkinson of Neasham Abbey, 

 a keen sportsman who often acted as field-master 

 when I was hunting the hounds. He kept a pack 

 of otter-hounds, and was devoted to that pursuit ; 

 indeed it was from a chill which he caught on the 

 river at his favourite summer sport that he died, 

 after a short illness, in the prime of life many years 

 ago. As Wordsworth puts it — '' A man he was, 

 of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows,'' 

 much beloved in his own country. 



Then there was Lord Henry Vane-Tempest, 

 who often turned up from Wynyard and elsewhere 

 to have a day with us. He thought there was 

 nothing like the Hurworth, and would travel any 



