'7° Reminiscences of a 



Goose plantation. This was on November 3rd, 1882, after 

 a meet at Sands Hall. 



One day we met at Embleton on February 5th, 1883, 

 with a large hunting party staying at Wynyard. The 

 present Marquis of Londonderry was out. Lord Henry and 

 Lady Aline Vane Tempest, and many others. We went to 

 Brierton, and found a brace on Jordison's moors; after 

 a sharp scurry at close quarters, our fox turned his 

 head northwards, leaving Dalton Crag on the right, over 

 Dove Cote farm to Elwick ; then over some turnip fields 

 towards Sheraton, thence to Cole Hill, through Roper's 

 plantation, where the fox rested, but we stirred him up again, 

 and away he went straight for Hutton Henry ; we ran 

 hard from there to Wingate plantation, and thence for 

 Hurworth Burn, but the fox bore to the left by the dis- 

 used brick ground, where Lord Henry made a bold jump 

 over some sleepers or boards into an old brick pond, and 

 came out covered with yellow water, though I do not 

 think he parted from his horse ; he didn't care, not he, 

 and led several others into a trap, as you couldn't get 

 over the garden rails at the back side of Wingate 

 Colliery. I knew that and whipped into a side road 

 and there met Lady Aline just as Lord Henry dropped 

 into the pond; she was rather upset at first, and glad to 

 see him out again ; she followed me as I told her it 

 was impossible to get the other way, and just as we 

 got round by the main street and near the colliery, 

 met the fox by the big steam boilers; he turned and 

 popped down underneath one of the boiler fires. 

 The old man in charge of the boiler was very excited, 

 and shouted out that the fox had gone under his boiler, and 

 said he thought at first it was the "Old Gentleman." I 



