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foothold as it were against the side, and cried out. It was 

 a terrible time as no one dare go down with the old 

 ropes and appliances we had, though one cove bolder than 

 the rest tried to look down, and was hanging by the 

 slender branch of a thorn bush which looked ugly, so I 

 seized him, and pulled him back, telling that there was 

 plenty down already without him. We heard sounds of 

 them for quite thirty-five minutes, as we took the time 

 carefully directly we checked, and did not leave until all 

 was perfectly still again. There were, of course, some of 

 the best hounds in the pack thus destroyed, as they were 

 all at the head of affairs. Old " Lively "+ was one of them, 

 and I always considered her the worst tempered foxhound 

 I ever saw. 



At Monkhessleden Dene a bitch called "Wishful,' which 

 was shown as an unentered bitch in the Yorkshire Hound 

 Show, held at Skipton-in-Craven, but was beaten by a bitch 

 from the Quorn, fell over a precipice when in pursuit of a 

 fox and broke her leg, and, of course, had to be destroyed. 

 Once near Coxhoe Hall the body of the pack we had 

 out, when in full cry and pressing their fox hard, went 

 over a rocky precipice into a quarry, a fall of thirty 

 feet or more, and wonderful to say they came out with 

 very little damage, only one or two being slightly lame, 

 but how they escaped I have always considered nothing 

 short of miraculous. We lost a few fox terriers at times 

 in the culverts and pit cracks, either from getting fast in 

 the pipe, or stopping the water and so being drowned. Old 

 Chester II. had a narrow escape or two. He just missed 

 going down that pit shaft with the unlucky two couples 

 of hounds, and though he was rather a big shouldered 



* The others were "Damper," "Larkspur' and " Wildair." 



