450 The Hunting Countries of England. 



are rocky crags to be drawn ; and almost in tlie same 

 district is Craster (the property of a gentleman of that 

 name) where the seabanks are covered with gorse. 

 From the kennels (at Green Eig, close to Bilton sta- 

 tion) or from Lesbury they draw a long wooded glen 

 called Callasies ; and Bank House is for the banks of 

 the Coquet — Newton Hall being another meet. 



In the district we have denominated Section B, 

 Belford is advertised with the word west after it, to 

 denote the way hounds will " gang^' to draw — after 

 coming by train to Belford. With this index sub- 

 joined, it is understood that the adjacent moorland, 

 with its gorses and young plantations, will be visited. 

 Chatton is a meet from which it may happen that Lord 

 Tankerville^s park at Chillingham may be run through 

 — in which case hounds must '' ware " wild cattle and 

 deer, and you, as an unprotected horseman in a red 

 coat, should keep well on the look-out for the pat- 

 riarch-of-the-herd. Common Flat is another meet ; 

 and so is the great rocky fastness of Hebron Wood. 

 From Eglingham they draw Beanley Wood, etc. ; and 

 at Leamington Branch are good plantations. 



In section C is Fowberry Park, the principal covert 

 from which is a rough damp place, in Northumberland 

 yclept a moss. Thence they get on to Lilburn (Mr. 

 Collingwood's), Ilderton Decoy, and Percy's Cross (a 

 fine gorse) . By the way, the Northumberland gorses 

 were as completely nipped, and rendered useless, by 

 the frost last winter as were those of the Midland 

 Counties. 



Section D comes into most notice in the spring, and 

 gives Lord Percy the chance of making a later — and 



