vi Contents, 



CHAPTER V. 



Mr. Unthank — Old Cherry and Captain Shaftoe — Nunwick 

 Hall — Among the Herdwicks — Mr. Crozier's Hounds — 

 Wetheral — Farlam Hall and its Greyhounds — The Bramp- 

 ton Coursing Meeting 94 — 119 



CHAPTER VI. 



Visit to Mr. John Grey — Recollections of the Booths and Mary 

 of Buttermere — Sir John Sinclair and his Merino Wool — The 

 Turbulent Bull — Lord Althorp and his Shorthorns — A 

 Downing-street Interview — Newcastle Races, the Slipping 

 Race — Sir Charles Monck — Woodhorn — A Felton Festival 

 —From Morpeth to Belford— The Wild Cattle of Chilling- 

 ham — The Border Leicesters 120 — 140 



CHAPTER VII. 



Bakewell's Longhorns — The Holderness and Teeswater — Great 

 Shorthorn Breeders — Mr. Bates — Mr. Fawcett's Recollections 

 of him — Show of Terriers at Yarm — Shoeing Contest — 

 Hound Show at Redcar — Photographing the Huntsmen — 

 The Neasham Hall Stud — Sparkler of the Hurworth — Mr. 

 Wetherell's Herds 140 — 172 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Eccentric Sporting Characters — Mr. Bruere's Herd — His Booth 

 Tree — John Osborne — Mr. Anthony Maynard — Killerby and 

 Warlaby Recollections — Mr. John Jackson — Lord Fever- 

 sham's Herd — " Old Anna" — Mr. Samuel Wiley— Mr. Bos- 

 ton's Leicesters 173 — 221 



CHAPTER IX. 



The late Sir Tatton Sykes — Life at Sledmere — Old Bob Rams- 

 den — Market Weighton Trotters — A Visit to Givendale — The 

 late Mr. Etty, R.A.— A Morning on Langton Wold— Blair 

 Athol 221 — 258 



