Vlll PREFACE. 



critics will not be too severe on my endeavours 

 to narrate this short history of the old hill and 

 dale pack in that beautiful valley of Wensleydale. 



F.C. 



Eastbourne, 1907. 



Additional Preface. 



As AN old friend of the author of this book, 

 who taught me to fish and shoot (and no man 

 ever had a better master), I should like to add a 

 few notes to the preface, the more especially 

 having been off his legs for twenty-five years, he 

 may now be partially forgotten by older sports- 

 men, and unknown to the younger generation. 

 Not only an Ex-Master of the Wensleydale 

 Hounds, but as a good all-round sportsman with 

 rifle, gun, and rod. With the rifle, he won the 

 first big all-comers' prize at Halifax, £100, in the 

 early Sixties ; at Wimbledon, in 1866, he won the 

 St. George's Challenge Vase, £250, with gold 

 enamelled jewel and badge. In 1870 he won the 

 £100 Enfield Wimbledon Cup, besides other 



