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on to Black Hall, then to Harwood and Rothley Craggs, 

 where we supposed changed foxes. My horse had had enough. 

 Colonel Cust, seeing this, lent me his horse, saying I would 

 kill my fox in five minutes. They then ran straight for Simon- 

 side. Mr. Ridley, of the Grange, and Tom Martin were the 

 only ones with me. We struggled over the moors until we 

 reached Simonside, but not a hound could we see. Mr. Ridley 

 said to me, ' Blow your horn, you will be sure to get them; 

 he will go to ground in the rocks.' I did blow, but got no 

 hounds. Colonel Cust's horse was so beat that I thought he 

 would have died. With great difficulty got him to a farm- 

 house, where we got everything required. The horse soon 

 rallied, and got home safe, but without hounds. Colonel Cust 

 walked nearly all the way to Stagshaw with my horse — not 

 a bad walk in top boots. The hounds ran on over the Coquet 

 to a millstream near Biddlestone, where they killed their fox, 

 or rather drowned him, at dark. Mr. Turnbull, of Great 

 Tosson, collected a lot of the hounds during the night, and 

 took care of them until the whip came looking for them the 

 next morning. — I am, your obedient servant, 



N. Cornish." 

 From the above account it is evident that after hounds 

 left Rothley Craggs it was nothing but a stern chase for 

 the three who were with them, whereas in the run of March, 

 1880, huntsman, whippers-in, and some of the field were 

 there to the end. Hounds going clean away from their field 

 because of difficulties of terrain are not infrequent, and 

 some fifteen years ago the Cumberland pack crossed 

 the Eden in flood, and were not found again until the next 

 day. As well as I recollect, they had made a seven-mile point 

 to the river, but they went straight on after crossing, and 

 were found on the following day many miles beyond, there 

 being evidence to the effect that they had covered a great 

 distance of ground. In the famous run of the Durham County 

 pack in the 'forties of last century the latter part of the 

 hunt was lost to the field because of fox and hounds crossing 

 the Tees — also in flood — while the riders had to go to a bridge 

 some miles away. In this latter case hounds made a seven- 

 mile point to the river, and a twelve-mile point to the Bedale 

 boundary after crossing the river; but this point is not quite 



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