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North Country influence ; which is important because the Border 

 counties are a great if not a " fashionable " hunting district, and one 

 particularly where amateur hound management and hunting afoot 

 flourish. There is the country of classic John Peel who hunted a 

 pack of foot foxhounds in the Cumberland Fells, of Surtees who 

 wrote of Jorrocks, of Pigg, of Soapey Sponge, Jack Spraggon, and 

 Facey Komford ; and of these Pigg, whose cousin Deavilboger 

 was a man of substance somewhere in the hinterland of " Cannie 

 Newcassel," was clearly a Northumbrian type. I remember further 

 seeing in The Field of those days accounts of the doings of the 

 Darlington Foot Harriers, and Darlington is pre-eminently the Pease 

 country, and the Peases, howsoever divided in politics, are united 

 as mighty hunters before the Lord. 



Among North Country members of T.F.B., besides Allgoods, Carr- 

 EUisons, and Peases, are to be numbered Dr. Fenwick, Mr. Harry 

 Howard, of Greystoke Castle, and his brother Stafford Howard, Mr. 

 H. Cavan Irving of Ecclefechan, Mr. C. J. Cropper of Kendal, Mr. 

 Alan Burns, and in later times Mr. Hugh S. Gladstone of Capenoch, 

 Dumfriesshire, Mr. Ian A. Straker, and no doubt many others. 

 Of these, J. S. Carr-Ellison and A. M. Allgood have since acted as 

 amateur hunt servants with foxhounds, the former as Whip and the 

 latter as Huntsman, thus reversing their status at Cambridge. The 

 following note by J. S. Carr-Ellison shows very clearly how in his 

 case, and the same must be true of others, the T.F.B. profited by the 

 lore and traditions of Northumberland. 



NOTE 



By J. S. Carti-Ellison 



Some of my happiest days have been spent beagling among the 

 range of Cheviot Hills in Northumberland, and also in the neighbour- 

 hood of Cambridge, but beagling on the hills in Northumberland was 

 much more sporting than it was in Cambridgeshire, and taught one to 

 be much more self-reliant, and to study nature more. For on the 

 lonely hills, with only three or four people out, there was not the 



