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On another occasion, near the same place, I 

 was shooting with a companion. The snow was 

 deep and the going very bad. I was well up the 

 hill-side when I heard my companion exclaim, 

 " Look out ! " Expecting a hare, I got ready to 

 shoot, when over a knoll appeared a fine big fox. 

 I could have blown his head off, but instead I 

 saluted him with a halloa, and away he went 

 towards the high ground. Evidently he, too, 

 found it bad travelling, as I saw him flounder 

 and slip several times before he went out of 

 sight. 



As an example of the pace of a fell hound on 

 rough ground, I wiU relate the following. The 

 Coniston Hounds found a fox in a ghyll on Kough- 

 sides, overlooking the Kirkstone Pass. A very 

 fast hound named Chanter, gained a long start 

 with this fox, and crossed the Kirkstone road not 

 far behind him. The fox made straight up the 

 steep side of Dod End, when it suddenly dawned 

 on us that the hound was fast gaining. In a very 

 short time he overhauled his fox, and I expected 

 to see the latter roUed over. Instead, the fox 

 whirled round and " set " the hound, and there they 

 stood, fangs bared, grinning at each other. I was 

 watching the scene through field-glasses, and not 

 till the remainder of the pack arrived on the scene 

 did Reynard make a bolt for liberty. They 

 turned him in very quickly, however, and rolled 



