CHAPTER XIV 



SOME NOTABLE RUNS AND CURIOUS ANECDOTES 



Memories of famous runs — Squire Frith, of Bank Hall 

 — A Derbyshire celebrity — His harriers — Great run 

 with a fox — Parson Fronde's famous run with a red 

 deer — Other runs with deer — Tara harriers — Great 

 Cotley run with a hare — Hailsham run of November 

 1900 — Colonel Robertson Aikman's notes — High 

 Peak runs — A month of starvation — Runs with Mr. 

 Hawkins's and Boddington packs — The Aspull — 

 How a hare was lost — Dart Vale and other runs — 

 A fox-hunt with the Crickhowell — Welsh hounds — 

 Anecdotes of hares — Some old runs with the Black- 

 moor Vale harriers 



In the case of every pack of harriers, aye, and of 

 beagles, too, in almost every country, you will find, if 

 you begin to inquire with particularity, the memories 

 of some great and astounding run, which has remained 

 always keenly treasured by the sportsmen of the dis- 

 trict. If the accounts of these runs could be carefully 

 collected and printed they would form, I am convinced, 

 a very excellent volume. Some few of the great runs 

 of the past have, happily, been preserved from utter 

 oblivion by being printed in some old sporting maga- 

 zine or in the local paper of the period. Before passing 

 to some among the more remarkable runs of the 

 present day, I think it may interest my hare-hunting 

 readers if I recall one or two famous chases of the past. 

 While making inquiries for the purpose of this^book 



