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away on to Helvellyn, and late In the afternoon 

 they were heard coming down into Wythburn. Here 

 they crossed the road close to their game, and in a 

 short time recrossed it, climbing again a little way 

 up Helvellyn. After a somewhat long check they 

 were heard, for it was now too dark to see, running 

 very hard; and then all was still. A search, with the 

 .aid of lanterns, for the fox proved fruitless, but hounds 

 w^ere got together, and kindly put up by the landlord 

 of the Nag's Head at Wythburn, the well-knowm 

 hostelry close to the foot of Helvellyn. There have 

 no doubt been longer runs than this, but few 

 higher, as hounds went over the very tops of Red 

 Screes, High Pike, and Fairfield, and were not 

 very far from the summit of the mighty Helvellyn. 



Other more fashionable packs have had extraordi- 

 nary chases in their day, over a flatter country, and 

 where hounds were going hard and fast the whole 

 •of the time. The Duke of Cleveland'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 a lengthy 

 -duration as they were years ago. Mr. Vyner tells 



