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on tlie EiO'Utli side of the Tyne were called tJie Slaley, but 

 whether this was merely a. local appellation. I do noti know. 

 Whati ia certain is that the pack in question was a forerunneo: 

 of the Tynedale, for in 1845 Mr. Maughan took in what ia 

 now the Tyiieidale country and held office for nine years, giving 

 way to^ Major Bell in 1854. When this happened Mr. Lam- 

 berti, of Elrington, became Master of the Haydon, and this 

 bears out the idea that, although Mr. Maughan's earliest 

 pack waa called the Slaley, it was in reality the Haydon. 

 Mr. Lambert waa succeeded by a committee in 1850, Mr. 

 George Lee, of Threepwood, being one of its leading members, 

 land this state of affairs existed for many years; but in 1875 

 Major Blackett Ord, of Whitfield, was made Maister, and held 

 office for five seasons of capital sport. It was during this 

 mastership that I came in for a capital hunti with the Haydon, 

 and the curious part of it was that I was on a, business ex- 

 pedition, and had no idea of hunting when I left home. As 

 a matter of fact, I had an appointanent at Hexham with the 

 late Mr. Joseph Lee, of Land Ends, and as Hexham waa 

 thirty miles- — with a. wait at a junction — from Shotley Bridge 

 by rail, and just half the distance by road, I decided to ride. 

 I had looked at the Haydon mest.s, knowing it. was one of their 

 hunting days, but the place of meeting, given in the local 

 paper, waa not within my knowledge, and I ima.gined it must 

 be on the far side of the country. As a matter of facti it was 

 a farmhouse close to Slaley, and a mile beyond the village 

 just named I came upon hounds running a fox, and joined 

 them. They had come out of Dipton Wood, and there was 

 a rare scent, which took them to Dukesfield, thence over some 

 rough country to Riddlehamhope, and bade right-handed to 

 West Dipton. They then went on up the Tyne Valley, a mile 

 or two south of the river, and killed there, at no great distance 

 from Haydon Bridge. 



This was a long and fine hunt, but it was thought that there 

 had been at least one change of foxes. I need hardly say that 

 I failed to keep my appointment, and I had a ride home of 

 something like twenty miles. Major Blackett Ord was fol- 

 lowed in the mastership of the Haydon by a younger Mr. 

 Nicholas Manghan, a son of the first. Master of the Tynedale, 

 and Vv'ho was a horsey rather than a hound man. During the 



