i to Saddle and Sirloin. 



good covers of oak and hazel ;* but the fox prefers 

 keeping to the rocks rather than the woods, and they 

 generally drag up to him rather than chase him. 

 Calm and rather damp weather suits scent best on the 

 high fells, and it will often hold on the hills when it 

 will not do so in the valleys, and vice versa; but scent 

 is such a delicate and difficult problem, that many 

 think that it varies very much with the bodily health 

 of the game. 



Joshua Fearon was the old huntsman, and the one 

 under whom Mr. Crozier graduated, and he still lives 

 hearty and well at eighty. He had a capital voice 

 and good hound language, and knew every move of 

 his game, from a fox to a water-rat Isaac Todhunter, 

 or " Lai Isaac," succeeded him, and hunted the pack 

 for just a quarter of a century. He had " a good 

 deal of Josh's science off," and was always clad in a 

 Lincoln green coat, scarlet waistcoat, and corduroy 

 breeches. The poor little fellow died after a few 

 days' illness of bronchitis in November, and John 

 Porter reigns in his stead. Besides Mr. Marshall's, the 

 Mell Break, the Cockermouth beagles, and the Bow- 

 ness, and Mr. J. Hartley of Moresby's harriers also 

 hunt the lake district. Trail hunts are hardly so much 

 practised as they were. Twenty or thirty years ago, 

 the prizes ranged from 5^. and a pair of couples to 5/. 

 The distance was from five to twelve miles, and Threl- 

 keld Hall Rattler and Stark's Towler, Parker's Rattler 

 and Wilson's Gambler (both Caldbeck dogs), Gilker- 

 son's of Carlisle and Roger's of Preston, were the 

 leading winners. 



But we have dwelt, perhaps, too long on Cumber- 

 land and its associations, and we must pass on to 

 another part of the border land. The brown garron 



* "As far as I am able to judge, larches and Scotch firs grow stunted 

 at an elevation of 1200 to 1500 feet, and hazel, dwarf oak whins, and 

 other native underwood at one of 1000 to 1200 feet." J. C. 



