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success, breeding the pack, which won at Peter- 

 borough in I goo, with an unentered dog-hound 

 Rambler ; and still greater honours in 1903, when 

 Pastime was the best brood bitch in the show. Mr 

 Sherbrooke has hunted hounds himself during the 

 whole time of his masterships, with the exception of 

 (1902-3), when Mr Robin HiH carried the horn. 

 During the early years of mastership there were 





Judging at Peterborough, 1S90. 

 Mr Reginald Chandos Pole, Mr P. A. W. Carnegy, Mr Tom Parrington. 



many difficulties to contend with, new methods, 

 altered conditions, and a scarcity of foxes. The 

 untiring zeal since 1879 of the honorary secretary, 

 Mr Alfred Pearson, has been the mainstay of the 

 Sinnington hunt ; enabling it to weather the storm 

 through critical periods of history. " Nimrod," as 

 Mr Pearson is affectionately termed all over the 

 sporting North, we met, with Mr Sherbrooke, on the 

 flags of the Sinnington kennel ; and afterwards he 

 introduced us to his great friend, the veteran Mr 



