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whicli it is composed is good enougli. The liberality 

 of Mr. Lane-Fox and other neighbouring Masters fills 

 up the vacancies that the home bred entry is inade- 

 quate to make good. The latter means of supply is 

 on a limited scale ; but what it produces is from old 

 and good sources. Not the worst of the home produce, 

 by the way, it may be mentioned, consists at this 

 moment of two generations of Quorn Alfred stock — 

 dating their origin to the time when that hound was 

 shown with such success in the north. The present 

 Master of the Sinnington is (as for the last four years) 

 that fine old sportsman and well known authority on 

 hounds and horses, Mr. Thomas Parrington ; who has 

 settled down to live about a mile from the head- 

 quarters of the pack at Kirby Moorside. 



It may be generally supposed by the outer — at all 

 events the southern and distant — world, that the 

 Sinnington is a rougli moorland country, such as 

 forms the hunting ground of various other, and minor, 

 trencher-fed packs in the North of England. But 

 this is by no means correct. The bulk of the Sin- 

 nington country lies on the cultivated slope and 

 alluvial flat, heloic what are known as the North York 

 Moors. Only on the northern edge of this slope does 

 it merge into moorland ; and, though hounds fre- 

 quently find themselves running up on to heather 

 from the high ground, there are only some two or 

 three meets whence they start at once upon it. The 

 wild upper moors which represent the great grouse 

 shootings of Lord Feversham — and the bulk which, 

 it will be noticed, are left uncoloured in Stanford's 

 Map — are hunted by two small hill packs, viz., the 



