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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER. 



I. ]Mr. John Chapman, First Master of the Wens- 

 leydale Hounds ...... 



II. The EarHest Record and History of the Pack . 



III. Two Good Runs— Sedbergh ; and The Bags- 



15 



IV. First Meet of the Season— A Few Curious 

 Incidents— Hare Hunting Fifty Years Ago 

 — Another Good Run in the Early Fifties . 26 



V. List of Hounds and Masters in Wensleydale 

 from 1775 to 1907 — Old Letters and Cor- 

 respondence — Cost of Hunt — Extract from 

 Diary of the late Christopher Topham, Esq. 34 



VI. Plucky Huntsman — Hound Trails — Song: 



" The Pride of the Pack " . . . . 45 



VII. A Mouse Story— John of Cautley . . . 51 



VIII. Otter Hunting 57 



IX. Shooting of the Hound " Cloudy " — A Deer 

 Hunt — Hare Hunting ; a Good Quest and 

 Run 64 



X. Auld Jack : His Dining at Simpson's in the 

 Strand, when he mistook the Waiters for 

 Parsons ; his Dinner with a " Suffolkshire " 

 Man; and his bewilderment at the Alhambra 72 



XI. A Good Run in Snow — Interesting Days with 



the Wensleydale Hounds .... 83 



