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land whose stamina must be phenomenal. Their 

 country is the roughest imaginable, over mountains 

 and down the vales, edging precipices and scaling 

 dangerous passes. Every season these hounds 

 have a run that may last into the teens of hours, 

 beginning soon after daybreak and not ending when 

 stars have studded the heavens and hunters are left 

 far behind. Last season hounds were heard in full 

 cry at ten at night, and next morning stragglers found 

 their way home to the kennels, others turning up a 

 day or two later. Some had to be looked for, having 

 become " crag bound," i.e., clambered down to a 

 cleft in the rock from whence they could not return. 

 During such runs as these, they do not, owing to the 

 rough country, go the pace of ordinary foxhounds, 

 but they possess greater patience in working out a 

 cold line, and are perfect in making casts on their 

 own account. The latter a most necessary gift 

 when they are at fault, and no one near them to 

 assist in hitting the lost line, for this hunting at the 

 Lakes is done on foot horses could not follow, 

 nor mules either, where men and hounds have 

 to go. 



So recently as the end of March, 1892, the Conis- 

 ton hounds, the Rev. E. M. Reynolds, master, had an 

 extraordinary run in the neighbourhood of Trout- 

 beck and Kentmere. They were either dragging or 



