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made, for sometimes when the waters are in flood, 

 or the hay crop remains uncut, hounds may not 

 be out for a week, or even a longer interval may 

 intervene between one meet and another. 



The Carlisle hounds are another noted lot, and, 

 with a slight interval, during which Mr. James 

 Steel was the master, that position w^as occupied by 

 Mr. J. C. Carrick for over a quarter of a century, 

 viz , until 1894, when Mr. G. A. Mounsey Heysham 

 became master, and now, in 1897, ^^ ^^^ ^^^ assist- 

 ance of Mr. Carrick as secretary. For some time 

 the Carlisle hounds were as invincible on the show- 

 bench as by the river. Then '' the Kendal " sprang 

 up in the sister county, and, with the late Mr. 

 Wilson, of Dallam Tower, as master, Troughton as 

 huntsman, and having extraordinary success in 

 breeding young hounds, they won all before them 

 in the ring. Afterwards the late Mr. W. Tattersall 

 took these hounds in hand, hunting them until 1891, 

 when they were sold as stated below. However, 

 Sir Henry Bromley, who in 1895 came into the 

 Dallam Towner estates, resuscitated the Kendal 

 pack, and is hunting them at the present time, 

 there being about twenty couples of hounds in the 

 kennels. 



The Kendal Ragman was particularly successful 

 at stud — no one ever had a better hound at work, 



