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but unfortunately died of a broken leg and typlius 

 fever combined. Unweaned from the Chase by 

 Philip^s and Gondolier's Turf success, his lordship 

 took to the Berwickshire and Northumberland 

 country in 1843, when Mr. Robertson gave it up, 

 and Talisman's blood did best for him out of the 

 eighteen couple of that old Lambton pack, which he 

 decided on keeping. This gave him seventy couple, 

 and he hunted six days a week with three packs. 

 He now hunts five days up to February, and four 

 after that time. The country is not picked up for 

 the dog and bitch pack, but the latter go to the 

 outlying meets simply because they are lighter in 

 the van. 



Channing came to his lordship in '39. His father 

 hunted Mr. Yeatman's, and he himself had ten sea- 

 sons with the Blackmore Vale, under Mr. Hall, 

 afterwards of the Heythrop, Lord Portman, and Mr. 

 Drax, before he moved North. He then served for 

 twelve seasons under Joe Hogg, and the last was 

 his fourteenth as kennel huntsman. 



The Amisfield kennels, near Haddington, where the 

 horses and hounds go for the summer, were built ori- 

 ginally for the Duke of Buccleuch. The move is made 

 to Coldstream the fij-st week in October, and they leave 

 again on April 3rd or 7th. During that time they 

 so for a fortnisiht to Belford. They enter from 14 

 to 17 couple, and walk 40 at least every year in 

 Peebleshire, Perthshire, East Lothian, and the coun- 

 try. Sutton's Albert and Trueman, Burton Contest, 



