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were entirely left to themselves, as it is too rough 

 a country to ride over. Probably the longest and 

 most severe run on record is that told by Mr. John 

 Crozier, for over fifty years master of the Blencathra. 

 This was in 1858. The fox was started soon after 

 noon on Skiddaw. He tried to shake off his pur- 

 suers by travelling in a ring several times, but finding 

 that of no avail, he took to the lowlands, going by 

 Millbeck to Applethwaite, past Crosthwaite church, 

 through Portinscale village, along Cat Bells, through 

 Borrowdale, and over the mountains into Westmor- 

 land. Still keeping to the south-west, fox and 

 hounds by midnight were at Black Hill, where shep- 

 herds heard them marking the fox at the earth. 

 The men went to the place, but under cover of the 

 darkness reynard got away towards Broughton-in- 

 Furness, in Lancashire. The hounds were found 

 next morning lying asleep near Coniston Crag, in 

 Lancashire. The distance in a straight line from 

 Skiddaw to the place where the hunt ceased is 

 thirtv-five miles, but at least another fifteen must 

 be added for the many deviations, thus making 

 a run of fifty miles over the roughest part of the 

 Lake district. 



Here is another good hunt on the hills : One 

 Friday in November, 1896, the Coniston hounds 

 met near Stock Ghyll Force, Ambleside, to try for 



