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Bridge School, wlieii passing on Ms way to the 

 meet. Oh ! how delighted we were, and many 

 and many a time do I remember two or three of 

 us when fairly rmi to a standstill, and as hungry 

 as "hunters," calling at several farmhouses in 

 Abbotside to beg bread and cheese ; and how 

 good it was. 



There was a very tough stout hare there that 

 jumped all the stone walls in the district ; and 

 there were at that time several lurchers kept at 

 Bainbridge for poaching hares at night. They 

 none of them could catch her, and I think they 

 ■called her the witch, but at last the Wensleydale 

 hounds pulled her down after a long run of six 

 or seven miles. This hare was always thought 

 to have been in a gate net, and to have got out 

 again. If once in a net they can scarcely be 

 induced to take a gateway or smeuse again. I 

 often, in the autumn, used to run them into nets 

 with a sharp terrier or two all round the village 

 of Thornton Rust, and they were rarely caught 

 by poachers after having been netted and turned 

 loose again. It was a terrible business getting 



