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along in touch with hounds, whereas without it 

 you would be left toiHng in the rear. After some 

 Httle experience of sport in this wild countrj^ one 

 soon learns how best to get about, and when to 

 trust to " Shanks's pony," and where to leave a 

 cycle in case it may be needed in a hurry. 



A fair number of ladies attend the meets of the 

 fell packs during the course of a season, and 

 wonderfully well, indeed, do some of them get 

 about. 



When speaking of the Lake District, one 

 naturally thinks of Cumberland and Westmorland ; 

 but Lancashke contains some of the higher fells, 

 such as Wetherlam and Coniston Old Man. The 

 real boundary of the district is the range of fells 

 south-east of Windermere, and from there a hne 

 drawn round Coniston, Wastwater, Ennerdale, 

 Grummock and Bassenthwaite Lakes ; continuing 

 over the summits of Skiddaw and Saddleback, 

 southward over Helvellyn, then swinging left to 

 enclose Ullswater and Haweswater, and so back 

 to Windermere. The valleys of Kentmere, Long 

 Sleddale and Swindale are just outside the cordon 

 as drawn above, and so is the Lower Duddon 

 valley on the south-west, but they and all the 

 country included in the roughly-drawn circle, 

 contain scenery typical of Lakeland. 



The rainfall in the Lake District appears large 

 on paper, from about 50 inches in the outlying 



