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ton Hall), Mr. Richard Forster, Mr. W. H. Wood, Captain 

 Cameron, Mr. George C. Whitwell, Mr. T. Appleby, Dr. 

 Fenwick, &c. — " Dunelmensis." 



It was about this period, or possibly a little prior to it, 

 that there was a meet at the Hare and Hounds, Garmonds- 

 way, and the following account was written by the then 

 Hon. Secretary of the Hunt. — " Found immediately at Camp 

 whin, ran very fast through the Glebe whin into Northside 

 plantation, where the hounds, for some mysterious cause, 

 could carry the line no further. The adjoining colliery being 

 idle that day the pit heap was thronged with young men 

 and pit lads, who are always very keen when they see the 

 " Hoounds," and on this occasion they streamed down the 

 pit heap, and into the plantation amongst the hounds, shout- 

 ing and yelling in certainly not very parliamentary language. 

 Bevans, who was galloping here, there and everywhere, was 

 fairly puzzled at the sudden change of affairs, as scent from 

 Camp whin to Northside was all that could be wished for. 

 After wasting all his wits in endeavouring to make out how 

 and where the fox had slipped us, he galloped up to me, 

 saying that " there must be very excellent schools at the 

 colliery, as the pit lads there were so well versed in the 

 vulgar tongue." 



He also wrote, " one day when running below Embleton 

 hounds pressed their fox very hard, and rattled him through 

 the Whin House belt plantation, from which he broke away 

 to the east, evidently beaten. Bevans, whose eye was as 

 quick as an eagle, seeing that he was about done, made sure 

 of a kill in the open a few fields further on. Still running 

 fast into a whinny pasture, about half a mile from where 

 Bevans viewed him, suddenly hounds threw up their heads, 

 and hit off the line they could not. Thinking the fox had 



