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the kennels have been at Stagshaw Bank, except when hounds 

 were at Nunwick from 1867 to 1869. Of this I have some 

 sorti of recollection, but I am not. oeirtain on the point. I do 

 remember, however, that Mr. Hunter Allgood had a very big 

 establishment, both of horses and houndg, and that, in fact, 

 he did the thing remarkably well. In my childhood I used 

 to hear a. good deal about, the Tynedale doings, and my earliest 

 reoolleotion of the pack is that I fell off the back seat of a 

 dogcart on the way toi a Tynedale meet, but was not hurt. As 

 a boy on a pony I saw the pack occasionally, more particularly 

 whem the Durham County were hunting in their Sedgefield 

 country, and the Tynedale were within riding distance of 

 Shotley Bridge, and on one of these occasions I had one of 

 the great hunts of my life. It must, be understood that I was 

 well mounted, having a nearly thoroughbred pony of 14 

 hands, good enough to go anywhere. Wherei hounds met I do 

 not. remember, but they found at. Ingoe, and had a. hunt which, 

 according to- my recollection, lasted all day, and killed at 

 Meldon Dyke Nook in the Morpeth country. An account of 

 this hunt was referred to> in the Field of Jan. 21, 1905, when 

 old runs were being discussed, and I aft.erwards had a let.ter 

 from the late Mr. Georgei Anthony Fenwick, stating that he 

 remembered it well, and telling me of another very similar 

 run of an earlier date, to which I will refer later. 



I was well over twenty-five miles from home, but I ha.d the 

 company of the late Mr. Ben Spraggon as far as Nafferton, 

 and I stopped at his house for tea,, and got. home between ten 

 a.nd eleven o'clock, not. one whit. t.he worse for the many long 

 hoiurs in the saddle. Nor was the pony sick or sorry after 

 his long day, and he was certainly out with hounds again 

 four or fivei days later. I may now give some general idea of 

 the Tynedale country, and yet. I canuot. do this as t.horo.ughly 

 as I should like, for the simple reason that thei greater part 

 of my hunting in the country in question has been on the 

 southern and eastern sides of the. hunt, a.nd that I have 

 seldo.m been in the No.rt.h Tyne Valley with the pack, a.nd 

 not very often on the north-western border of the hunt. The 

 fact is that, the districts I have just referred to- are a. very lo.ng 

 distance from Shotley Bridge, where my quarters have nearly 

 always been located, and even in these days of motor-ears 



