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try. Here a are few of them. " Found at Swindon, 

 ran well across the Vale, straight up the hill, and killed 

 on the top of Cleeve Hill. Twice in one season a hare 

 ran from Boddington to Wallsworth Hall, a point of 

 nearly five miles, losing, through changing hares, at 

 the finish ; probably the same hare gave both these 

 runs, as the line was precisely the same. In 1901 

 two long runs occurred in one day, one hare being 

 found at Haydon and the other at Boddington, and 

 both being curiously lost at Tredington village, 

 after a four and five mile point in each instance. 

 Perhaps the best run over the Vale we ever had was 

 last season, when a hare from the Leigh was killed 

 close to Cheltenham, after 45 minutes fast run over 

 some of the best of the Vale country." 



" The longest run I have had," says Mr. Carlton 

 Cross, Master since 1890 of the AspuU harriers, Lanca- 

 shire, " was a 6 mile point, but it was not as fast as 

 one in the season of 1900-1901, when we ran 6^ miles 

 in a horse-shoe in thirty minutes, over a grass country ; 

 in both cases we never changed. As to the distance 

 a hare can run, I have known them go three times 

 round our point-to-point racecourse, which is three 

 miles round." A nine mile hare-hunt is no bad thing, 

 and Lancashire hares are evidently good enough for 

 any harriers ; for the Aspull is a very smart and well 

 bred pack of modem harriers, with a good deal of 

 foxhound blood about them. Mr. Cross, among other 

 interesting notes with which he has been good enough 

 to favour me, tells me that he is one of those who 

 hold with giving plenty of hares to hounds. He does 

 it and believes in it. I think the majority of hare- 

 hunters, who give their killed hares to neighbouring 

 farmers, are satisfied with the keenness of the pack 

 without more blood than is afforded by the entrails. 



