36 FOX-HUNTING FROM SHIRE TO SHIRE 



for young hounds are the wild sheep on the hill- 

 sides, jumping up before them in the heather and 

 bracken, destroying scent, looking no bigger than 

 a hare, and about as game, but if a hound gets 

 a taste for mutton his hunting career ends at once. 

 Amongst the bitches were some nice types, for 

 brood purposes, that looked like doing the kennel 

 good in years to come. We particularly liked the 

 stylish Ladybird (1907), by South Durham Primate 

 (1901), from Laundress (1905), for she is Belvoir in 

 quality and colour. Another lengthy, low bitch, 

 was Governess (1905), by Montague (1902), from 

 Garnet (1899) ; she is just the type for a 

 matron, with good ribs, plenty of stuff, and nice 

 quality. 



In the summer months Mr Lewis Priestman has 

 for many years owned and driven the Venture 

 road coach, which runs during August between 

 Scarborough and Bridlington, a double journey of 

 twenty miles each way, for which four teams are 

 provided. Some of the hunt horses carry the 

 bars of the coach, a stronger stamp, able to hold 

 the load on the steep hills, being used in the wheel. 

 For a hilly, bank and wall country like Durham, 

 a short-legged, active horse is the best conveyance, 

 able to gallop and stay ; for about sixty per cent, 

 of its area is pasture, fifteen per cent, plough, and 

 the remaining fourth, equal proportions of woodland 

 and moor. 



On a gloriously fine morning in October 1910, 

 when staying at Shotley Bridge the guest of the 

 master, we had a most enjoyable ride with the 

 sporting pack, well carried by an active little horse 

 who accomplished feats of mountaineering such 

 as we never experienced before. The master was 

 riding a new purchase, a good-looking, dark-brown 



