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and this is proved by the fact. that. Mr. RogersxDii has killed 

 mere than any of his predecessors did becan&e hei did not 

 change so frequently. Time was when it was almost impossible 

 to run a fox into any of dozens of Ncrtii Durham coverts with- 

 out putting up fresh foxes, and on this point Mr. Majmard 

 used to enlargei at. length and at. times would only have a very 

 small tract of country stopped. " Shall I stop for your 

 Lanchester meet on Monday? " would be asked. " Certainly 

 not; there are far too many foxes above ground every Mon- 

 day," he would say, and would chance running to ground. 

 Now Mr. Rogerson often has ten miles of country stopped, 

 but I am inclined to think he and his partner, Capt. Frank 

 Bell, find just about the desirable number of foxes, for they 

 are not so bothered with frequent, changes. 



Mr. Anthony Maynard's mastership of the North Durham, 

 which extended over a period of twelve seasons, was a singu- 

 larly happy one, first-rate sport being the rule rather than the 

 exception from the first to the last season of the twelve. Mr. 

 Maynard, who owned property at Skiningrove, not far from 

 the Yorkshire coast, between Saltbum and Whitby, had been 

 hunting all his life, chiefly with the Cleveland, the Hurworth, 

 the Duke of Cleveland's (afterwards Mr. Cradock's, and now 

 the Zetland). He was a fine judge of a hunter, being, in 

 fact, almost world renowned in that capacity, for he judged 

 at the Dublin Show when a very young man, and continued 

 to officiate there, from time to time, until he was well advanced 

 in years. He judged also at all the most important shows 

 in the kingdom, and it was frequently said that his decisions 

 were very seldom upset by other judges. He was not a 

 young man, as far as years are concerned, when he came to 

 Newton Hall, but when he took the North Durham he was 

 physically the youngest man of his age we ever knew, and he 

 had the spirits of a boy, and extraordinary enthusiasm for 

 everything connected with horse and hound. He was a 

 cheery optimist, in fact, and a rare sportsman, with very 

 great knowledge of hunting, and he quickly became immensely 

 popular in the North Durham. Indeed, he was hardly looked 

 upon as a stranger, for the first Mrs. Maynard was a 

 Wilkinson, of Harperley, in the North Durham country, 

 while his second wife was a daughter of Canon Ridley, of 



