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cottage. A woman rushed out of the latter, 

 armed with a broom, and forbade either huntsman 

 or hounds to enter the garden, which was well 

 fenced in. Eventually, however, she was per- 

 suaded, and after fair law had been allowed the 

 fox, the hunt continued. 



At another time a certain pack ran a fox into 

 a crag where it " benked " in rather a difficult 

 place. Hounds could not get to it, so a man was 

 lowered in on a rope. He succeeded in shifting 

 Reynard " out of that," and away went hounds in 

 hot pursuit. Oblivious to all else but the hunt, 

 the men on the top utterly forgot their mate 

 dangling in mid-air below them, and not until his 

 frantic yells reached their ears did they set about 

 the business of hauling him up. 



It is not often one has the chance of seeing the 

 finish of a hunt from a motor-car, but on one 

 occasion I remember doing so. Hounds were 

 running hard on Gummershow, overlooking the 

 lower end of Windermere Lake. I was heading 

 towards the lake when a friend's car overtook me. 

 Jumping in, we careered down a side-lane, and 

 turned sharp into the main road, just as hounds 

 forced their fox across it, and killed him near the 

 lake shore. 



On one occasion the Windermere Harriers 

 brought a fox to hand at Blakerigg at the head of 

 the Easedale valley. Anthony Chapman, now 



