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three seasons of Mr. Maughaoi's mastership th.e Master aad 

 men were splendidly mounted, but I never heard much of 

 th.e sport, and as th.€i hounds were sold in a single lot for £15 

 when Mr. Maughan resigned I imagine iti was not very grand. 

 One thing which happened, however, I shall never forget. 

 The Tynedale were advertised to meet at. Dilston, and the 

 Haydon at Traveller's Resti. The two places are several miles 

 apart, but. a great deal of tihe country betiween them is filled 

 up with an enormous tract of woodland, called East Dipton. 

 It should b© explained that, strictly speaking, this is Tynedale 

 country, being a part of the districti hunted by the Slaley 

 pack of the elder Mr. Maughan when that gentleman took over 

 the Tynedale country. But at times therei had been a. little 

 friction, and Mr. Maughan was undei' th.e impression he had 

 a right to the country. I may say here that an arrangement 

 has long since been concluded by which the Haydon have the 

 country all through the besti parti of the season, while the 

 Tynedale go there in tlie early autumn and late spring. But 

 nearly forty years ago no understanding had been arriveid 

 at, and the country was claimed by both packs. On the day I 

 have in mind the Haydon met half an hour or possibly a, whole 

 hour earlier than the Tynedale, and I had gone withi a. friend 

 to meet th.e latter pack, who proceeded to draw East Dipton 

 from the Dilsiton end of the covert. The Haydon, it appeared, 

 had been puti into the same huge covert at th.e oth.er end, and 

 after a while the two packs met, no fox ha.ving been fonnd. 

 The Master of the Tynedale was not present, but as it hap- 

 pened the tv/Oi " fields " suddenly met in an open space, and 

 then for ten minutes there was a terrible row. The Haydon 

 IMjaater was most anxious to fight someone, and for a time 

 it really looked as if he would be accommodated. But a deus 

 ex machina appeared in the person of the mosti popular man 

 in th.e distan-ct., and he succeeded in calming the passions which 

 had been roused, and bot.h packs went on drawing until the 

 road was reached at Linnolds Bridge, when th.e two' packs 

 were " drawn " and each hunt proceeded on its way. The 

 chief actors in this scene have all joined the great majority, 

 but I have thought it best to mention no names, and doubtless 

 many of the hunting people of Tyneiside will remember the 

 incident. Poor Maughan, who died when quite a young man. 



