no FOXHUNTING ON LAKELAND FELLS 



tunnel, and it was supposed that the one in the 

 rear had been smothered to death. 



On another occasion in the Troutbeck valley, 

 hounds ran a fox to ground in a drain. A terrier 

 was put in, and the fox bolted, giving hounds a 

 very fast spin straight downhill. They practically 

 never broke view, and rolled him over directly. 

 Whilst the field were occupied in watching them, 

 a second fox, which proved to be the hunted one, 

 made his appearance from the drain, and going off 

 rather stiffly, got to ground in a quarry " rubbish 

 heap," from which it was impossible to dislodge 

 him. 



Foxes will often lie extraordinarily close in long 

 heather. I was out one day with the Ullswater, 

 and we tried a lot of country without a sign of a 

 drag or a line of any sort. Eventually we tried 

 a heather-covered allotment between Kentmere 

 and Troutbeck. Still there was no sign of a fox, 

 and the field was beginning to get rather dis- 

 couraged, when suddenly, right in the middle of 

 hounds, a fox sprang out of the heather. How 

 he ever escaped is a mystery, but get clear he did, 

 giving a straight away hunt by way of Rainsbarrow 

 and the head of the Kentmere valley, where hounds 

 " laid him in," and finally rolled him over at the 

 edge of Kentmere reservoir, after a screaming 

 sixty minutes' hunt, without the semblance of a 

 check from start to finish. 



