CHAPTER XII. 



John Peel, and Song. 



JOHN PEEL was a most noted hill huntsman 

 in Cumberland. He hunted a pack for 

 over forty years, died in 1854, at the 

 age of seventy-eight, and is buried in the village 

 churchyard at Caldbeck. The late Mr. John 

 Chapman knew him very well, and they were 

 very similar in character. He also had a batch of 

 hounds with a strong strain of blood of John 

 Peel's hounds in them. 



Harry Routlunell, another well-known hunts- 

 man, I believe, succeeded him, took over his 

 hounds, and for several years hunted the same 

 district. 



