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and your career will soon end in mortification and a 

 return to the ways of tlie more modest. The latter 

 (perhaps with scorn in their glance) have been work- 

 ing along the upper ridges^ taking advantage of gates 

 where they offered,, or, failing these, of gaps now, or 

 previously torn down in the stonewalls. All the time 

 they avoid as much as possible the lower and deeper 

 ground, trusting to their knowledge of country, and 

 of the run of foxes, to keep them on sound going and 

 on some sort of terms with the pack. As above noted, 

 all the Tynedale country is of a very undulating 

 character; but as you get westward it becomes more 

 and more confirmedly hilly, and the valleys attain a 

 softer consistency. That they may cope with the hills 

 and walls, it follows, naturally, that hounds must have 

 the strongest of backs and quarters to carry them up, 

 and the best of shoulders to bring them down, in 

 their jumping and galloping. Mr. George Fenwick^s 

 pack possess these essentials in the highest degree. 

 And another requisite, to which they have been bred 

 and schooled, is to be as much as possible independent 

 of extraneous help. As a matter of necessity they can 

 receive little or none in their strong-scenting stone- 

 wall country ; and they are educated to look for vtvj 

 little elsewhere. Lest the power and pace of the 

 grass should tend in any degree to induce flightiness, 

 it is made a rule, for each division of the pack, that a 

 day on the grass shall be succeeded by a day in the 

 East Country or the Yalley of the Tyne, where they 

 must work hard and ^' turn short. ^' Mr. Fenwick 

 purchased the foundation of his present pack about a 

 dozen years ago from Mr. Allgood, who held the 



