6o Modern Dogs. 



galloping a great portion of that time, or may be 

 doing more laborious work in the thick coverts, 

 or even walking on the hard road to or from the 

 meet. 



Though not bred with great precision and with 

 such care for pedigrees, as is the case with fashion- 

 able packs, there are lightly built hounds hunting in 

 the mountainous districts of Cumberland and West- 

 morland whose stamina must be phenomenal. Their 

 country is the roughest imaginable, up the moun- 

 tains and down the vales, edging precipices and 

 scaling deep, 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. A few years back 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 projection in the rock from 

 whence they could not return. During such runs, 

 owing to the rough country, hounds do not 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 



