^3^ Reminiscences of a 



side of the road, when the Noble Earl, then Master of the 

 Durham County Hounds, fell and broke his arm in 1843. I 

 have also heard him say that he could remember seeing Mr. 

 William Russellf (great uncle of the present master of the 

 South Durham, I believe) call at Squire Sutton's at Elton 

 about the same year, and indulge in a glass of brandy and 

 w^ater after a hard day. Those were the good old days ! 



The Marquis of Londonderry was master of the Hurworth 

 hounds when I first came into the country, and consequently 

 was not out with us much, but he occasionally came to see 

 how we were getting on. He was always a good horseman, 

 and a wonderfully hard man to beat over a country, being 

 very " straight-necked." Sometimes it 's a good thing, but 

 sometimes you get dropped on if anything goes wrong; but 

 His Lordship always rode good cattle, and seldom got down 

 in England. One morning, when he was master of the 

 Hurworth, probably in 1874, he came to have a bit of cub 

 hunting with us in the Cole Hill country. Whilst drawing 

 Sheraton plantations hounds were full of riot, and I had 

 to put one or two of them through their facings rather 

 severely. Amongst others, " Stately," a second season bitch, 

 that came from the Lothians' pack, I fancy, and had a 

 sister called "Spiteful."* "Stately" was a good bitch with 

 a fox on foot, but failing a fox she 'd have a go at any- 

 thing, and was particularly fond of hares, which I was 

 determined to break her from, kill or cure, and caught her 

 in the small plantation at Sheraton fairly on the job, and 

 gave her a sound, good correcting, of which the Marquis and 

 Lord Henry Vane-Tempest were eye witnesses. Mr. Harvey 



t Mr. W. Russell died in 1850. 



•"Stately" and "Spiteful" (1872) were by the '• Holderness Lincoln" out of the 

 " Lothians' Sedulous." 



