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hunting for over ten hours, over a terribly rough 

 and wild country, and their fox, dead beat and 

 only just in front of them, had his life saved by a 

 severe storm the like of which is only known in the 

 Lake district coming on, and effectually driving both 

 hunters and hounds off the mountains into the valley. 

 Although the finish was not far from kennels, the 

 hounds had been out for thirteen hours before they 

 were safe at home again. 



Other more fashionable packs have had extraordi- 

 nary runs in their day, over a flatter country, and where 

 hounds were going hard and fast the whole of the 

 time. The Duke of Richmond's run near Borough 

 Bridge in 1738, which lasted from a quarter to eight 

 in the morning until ten minutes to six in the evening, 

 deserves to be a record. Other runs of almost equal 

 duration are still talked about, but with a good country, 

 fast hounds, and bustling the latter on by hard riding, 

 to say nothing of the late hour of meets, hunting runs 

 are not of such long duration as they were years 

 ago. Mr. Vyner tells us of one with his hounds, 

 in which the first eleven miles were covered over 

 pretty rough ground in about fifty-three minutes, 

 which must be taken as something quite extraordi- 

 nary, when fences and one thing and another are 

 taken in consideration. Such a run in the open 

 cannot be placed side by side with the " trail " 



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