NORTHERN COUNTRIES 105 



Mr. and Mrs. Orde and Miss Orde, Miss Blackburn, Messrs, 

 G. Fenwick, Liddell, Lawson, F. Straker, Gordon-Wood, 

 Dent, Watson ( 2 ). 



The Tyxedale 



I Turning to the Tynedale, I have to begin by noting the 



death of their late huntsman, Cornish, which took place 

 on Monday, April 4. By birth a native of Devonshire, he 



* was with the Tynedale hounds from 1869 to 1883, the 



I greater part of the time in the service of the late Mr. 

 Fenwick, under whom he brought the pack into the highest 

 state of perfection. He was not only a good servant, an 

 excellent huntsman, and surpassingly skilled in the con- 

 ditioning of hounds, but he possessed the invaluable 



> faculty of making himself liked by the farmers of the 

 country, one and all of whom recognised him heartily as 

 .1 friend. 



The present huntsman of the Tynedale is H. Bonner, 

 recently of the Meath, and formerly whip to the Bicester 

 and the Belvoir. Having succeeded well in his first 

 season here, he is likely, I hope and believe, to show sport 

 for many years to come. 



Their meet on Wednesday, April 6, was at Kirkheaton 

 (Mr. Bewicke's), not far from the centre of their country, 

 and approached from the south (as indeed from nearly all 



. sides) through a wide stretch of fascinating grass, over 



! which the eye can wander longingly and unawed. 

 1 am bound to confess — with all apology both for the 

 mistake at the time and for the present assertion — that in 

 ! sketching the Tynedale among the Hunting Countries of 

 ' England, I was unintentionally misled as to the practi- 

 cability of the greater part of it. As a matter of fact, 

 while much of it is easy, nearly the whole of it is rideable 

 enough, the only exception being in the case of some of 

 the wilder west and north-west, whose walls preclude your 

 riding over them — not so much on account of their height 

 as on account of their being coped with knife-edged pieces 

 of limestone, placed transversely. Thus they form an 

 obstacle that one of experience described to me as '' only 



