CHAPTER IV. 



First Meet of the Season ; and Hare 

 Hunting Fifty Years Ago. 



FORMERLY, and for fuUy forty years, our 

 first meet was for cubs, on West AVitton 

 feast day, the 24th of August, at Penhill. 

 Three or four young men from the village used 

 to go an hour before day break, and light a 

 couple of fires in the crags, one near the hole on 

 the top of the ridge, the other lower down near 

 the entrance to a hole called Rantry Yard. 



The hounds threw oS. about six o'clock, and 

 mostly found foxes laid out on the moor, not far 

 away fi'om the crags ; sometimes in Hodge holes 

 — a rocky place with lots of large boidders, where 

 we always could either bolt them with terriers. 



