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on which day we had very good sport and killed a brace of 

 cubs, which 1 narrated to him, and not knowing that there 

 was a reporter of the Newcastle Daily Chronicle standing by 

 and listening to all we said, was surprised to read in next 

 morning's paper a full account of the two packs' doings 

 exactly as we had related the incidents to each other ! I 

 have no doubt Mr. Ford was equally amused and surprised. 

 1 remember that the good mare " Music " broke down near 

 "Dolly Cook's" in the North part of the country, and had 

 to be destroyed. 



A gentleman that used to have occasional days with us 

 was Mr. C. Hayes Jackson of Darlington, who generally 

 had his own boots and spurs ready if he could find anyone 

 with a horse that wanted pushing along or schooling a bit, 

 as he dearly loved to be on the back of a young thorough- 

 bred that hadn't seen much of hounds, and wanted a bit of 

 handling, and it was wonderful how he got over the country 

 with some of his mounts. He would sometimes tie a horse's 

 leg up when run in a tight corner with a headstrong young 

 one, but this was very exceptional, and always enabled him 

 to get to the bottom of him. 



A great admirer of Mr. Harvey was Mr. Joseph Flavell 

 of Sedgefield, and latterly of Layton, who always boasted 

 that he had hunted with Mr. Ralph Lambton and was very 

 proud of it ; he was a good sporting farmer and auctioneer, 

 and likewise a good fox preserver, as he generally had two 

 litters of cubs on his farm. He walked a puppy or two, 

 and sported pink and brown tops in the good old-fashioned 

 style, making no secret of it that he did not go to London 

 either for his clothes, hat or boots ! On one occasion he 

 greatly soiled a new red coat by coming to grief in a black 

 bog near Carrside plantation, and I heard him lamenting 



