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of Colonel North's grand greyhounds to the meet for me 

 to see. Of racing greyhounds I am far from pretending 

 to be a connoisseur (my experience of coursing being limited 

 to the fact of having first learned to ride Leicestershire by 

 galloping to greyhounds). But no man who loves horse 

 and hound, animal hfe and development, could fail to be 

 struck and delighted with Fullerton's glorious strength and 

 palpable symmetry. Every muscle, every sinew, every 

 line, betokened power, activity, and rare speed. And, 

 with him in memory, I feel already that in future I shall 

 know some little about a high-class greyhound when I 

 see one. 



The field of Wednesday, besides containing several who 

 were with the ^Morpeth yesterday, held, among others, the 

 Master and Mrs. Straker, Mr. and Mrs. Fenwick, Mrs. M. 

 Fenwick, Mr. and Misses Allgood, Messrs. Robson and 

 Miss Robson, Mr. and Mrs. Bell, Messrs. Straker (C, J., 

 and F.), Captain Bewicke, Captain Browne, Messrs. Stephen- 

 son, Barker, Bewicke, Wallis, &c. 



April is probably the worst month of the year in which 

 to see a pack of hounds. Indeed it must be often difticult 

 to bring out a full pack at all at such a time. But in the 

 Tynedale to-day I recognised the same beautiful necks and 

 shoulders that struck me a dozen years ago ; and I had 

 opportunity during the day of witnessing their pace and 

 ready drive. 



And, as I was prepared to see, there were horses in 

 the field such as it would puzzle England to surpass, for 

 fashion and power and value. Of a truth, there is wealth 

 and there is love of a good horse in Cannie Newcastle 

 yet. 



Very readily a fox was found in one of the Kirkheaton 

 coverts — a larch plantation as afore described — and very 

 hotly they ran him for a few minutes into the Capheaton 

 demesne across the valley, having first threatened the open 

 ground eastward. Through this valley runs the river 

 Blyth, with boggy banks, on uncertain bottom, and very 

 varying width. Where I followed several men and women 

 of the country, the stream had narrowed to very easy 

 jumping dimensions ; while to the left there were men up 



