CHAPTER XVI. 



Another Eventful Day, when the Author was 



A Schoolboy at Sedbergh ; and a 



Story of Jack Vestrys. 



ON this occasion, a fox was turned down 

 between Hawes and Hardraw, After 

 being turned and hampered in all direc- 

 tions by the crowds of foot people, he took up 

 and through the grounds below Hardraw water- 

 fall. Mr. Chapman, following close to the 

 hounds, rode his horse up the staircase adjoining 

 the falls on the west side. There must have been 

 thirty or forty steps. After getting to the top, 

 lie somehow got on to the road leading through 



