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sport, was at the head. But more changes were 

 brewing here, and at the present time Mr. H. P. 

 Senhouse is master, and Mr. J. H. Jefferson is 

 working and hunting secretary. Mr. F. Collier now 

 hunts his late uncle's hounds, which are perhaps 

 better known as the Culmstock. Mr. W. Collier, 

 down Devonshire way, hunted the otter for over fifty 

 years, and Mr. Cheriton in the west likewise, but 

 both appear to have preferred the dash and go of 

 the foxhound to the sedateness and care of the pure 

 variety. Mr. W. C. Yates has had some good 

 hounds in his time. I once saw the latter — Mr. 

 T. Wilkinson, of Neasham Abbey, hunting the 

 pack during an off season, when he had not one 

 of his own — kill three otters in one day, in Lanca- 

 shire. Mr. Yates latterly hunted in Ireland, but 

 in 1896 he sold the whole of his pack to Sir Henry 

 Bromley. The Squire of Neasham, after an idle 

 season or two, again got together his favourite 

 hounds, and is still hunting in the neighbourhood 

 of Durham, and goes into Northumberland occa- 

 sionally. The latter county once had a pack of its 

 own, the property of Major Brown. In Scotland, 

 Captain Clarke Kennedy, some years ago, kept 

 otter hounds ; so did Dr. Grant, of Knockgray; 

 and the Duke of Athol and others, nor can the 

 west country hounds of Mr. Trelawny's be omitted. 



