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Golden Grove to Stainsacre Wood. It was now 

 quite dark and impossible to see what the hounds 

 had done, but it was supposed they killed their 

 fox as he was only just before them when last 

 seen. The time was six hours and twenty 

 minutes ; part of the run was very fast, and as a 

 matter of course a good deal of it was slow, but 

 it is pretty certain that hounds never changed, 

 and indeed it is questionable if there was another 

 fox in the country they crossed.. David, when 

 ■he told us of the run, said it was the best he ever 

 saw, and for variety of country and the different 

 ^ movino- incidents of flood and field ' it would be 

 bad indeed to equal. David rode Jollynose, a 

 horse with two crosses of the thoroughbred, and 

 whos3 grandam was a pure-bred Cleveland mare ; 

 and a good one he must have been to carry his 

 weight close to the hounds over such a trying 

 country. 



It seems a pity that the Eskdale should receive 

 such half-hearted support, for it is a good sporting 

 country, a famous one in which to educate a 

 young hunter, and the farmers are foxhunters to 

 a man. With foxes better preserved, and a little 

 more pecuniary support, a good two-days-a-Aveek 

 country might easily be kept going, and, not- 

 withstandina^ the rouo^hness of much of it, a sfood 

 average of sport would undoubtedly be enjoyed.'" 



'■''■ Since the above Avas written the Eskdale hounds have been 

 dispersed ahnost over the four quarters of the globe. Some have 



