in the Seventies &nd Eighties. 39 



to ground he lay flat down on his side, and was viewed in 

 this position by one of the keepers, on whose approach he 

 crawled into the earth. 



The present Marquis of Londonderry (then Viscount 

 Castlereagh,* and at Christ Church, Oxford), Lord Henry 

 Vane Tempest, General Hardinge, Mr. Launcelot RoIleston,t 

 Captain Davison and his son Tom, Mr. Ord (who had just 

 left Oxford and was riding old " Clinkiron," a noted per- 

 former at Sedgefield Steeplechases), Mr. C. W. C. Hender- 

 son,J and Major Allison enjoyed the sport that day, and will 

 not have forgotten this extraordinary gallop. No other 

 occasion occurs to my mind of hounds racing right through 

 all the Wynyard woods without a check, and with scent 

 breast-high. Though thirty-one years have elapsed since this 

 memorable day — 



" And though as swift as lightning's flash, 

 Those blessed moments flew ; 

 Not all the waves of time shall wash 

 Their memory from my view." 



The Bedale hounds had also brilliant sport from Kirby Hill 

 on this day, with two runs of twenty-five minutes each and 

 one of an hour and forty minutes, finishing in the darkness. 

 The meet was at Newbeggin, on Wednesday, January 15th, 

 an unusual day for this part of the country, but the appoint- 

 ment was no doubt made to meet the wishes of the Marquis 

 of Londonderry, who, with his usual generosity, had ex- 

 pressed a wish that the hounds should meet at Wynyard 

 Park on the Friday, and be entertained to breakfast. There 

 was a great crowd from all parts at the meet, including 



• Master of the Hurworth Hounds, 1873-5. 

 t Master of the South Notts Hounds, 1876-1882. 



J Son of Mr. John Henderson, and father of Lieutenant Henderson, who so pluckily saved 

 Beames' (Tynedale Huntsman) life in December last, when well nigh drowned. 



