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every point of note in this favourite district : and 

 readers may thus be referred at once to page 414 of 

 Mr. Jorrock^s biography. Two points at least are to 

 be gleaned from perusal of the poem. One is, that a 

 vast amount of sterling enthusiasm existed in Durham 

 in those days ; the other, that a new comer cannot do 

 better than take to heart, as applicable to the whole 

 country of the present time, the couplet 



But remember, my boys, with a Long Newton fox, 

 It won't do to flash when you're up to the hocks. 



Darlington, or better still Croft, both outside the 

 country, are the most likely places whence a stranger 

 would see the South Durham hounds in the field — and 

 on their best ground. Croft and its advantages have 

 already been fully told of under the head of the 

 Hurworth Country; and Darlington is the railway 

 junction just north of it, at the meeting-point of the 

 South Durham, Hurworth, and Lord Zetland^s. 



Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the one week, 

 Monday and Friday only in the next, are days of 

 hunting. Monday is for the east of the country — 

 Sedgefield to the sea ; and the leading meet for this 

 side, commanding indeed the whole of it, is Embleton, 

 with Brereton Whin as its first draw. Wolviston, 

 with Noddings Whin (which used to be a great place) 

 takes in most of the south of the same district. 



Wednesday is for the north and north-west of 

 Sedgefield, much of the property in this direction 

 being owned by Sir William Eden — who has coverts 

 and plantations and foxes in plenty about Windlestone. 

 Just north of Sedgefield, too, is some good grass 



