A DOG HUNT ON THE BERWYNS 289 



" The last that was seen of him was on Sunday 

 morning, by Mr Jones on the Syria sheep-walk, 

 when the dog was in the act of killing a lamb. 

 Mr Jones was armed with a gun at the time, 

 and tried to get within gunshot range ; but 

 it seems that the animal can scent a man ap- 

 proaching him from a long distance, so he made 

 off immediately. After it became known to the 

 farmers and inhabitants of Llandrillo that he had 

 been seen, a large party went up to the mountain 

 at once, and were on the hills all day, but nothing 

 more was heard of him till late in the evening, 

 when he was again seen on Hendwr sheep-walk, 

 and again entirely lost. On Monday a number of 

 foxhounds were expected from Tanybwlch, and if a 

 sight of him can be obtained, no doubt he will be 

 hunted down and captured, and receive what he 

 is fully entitled to — capital punishment." 



On a bright May morning, five months after the 

 first appearance of the sheep -destroyer, a pack, 

 consisting of a dozen couple of fox-dogs, with their 

 huntsman, started up the lane from Llandderfel to 

 the hills, followed by a motley crowd of farmers 

 and labourers, armed with guns and sticks, and 

 numbering many horsemen. 



Up the lane till the hedges gave place to loose 

 stone walls, higher still till the stone walls dis- 



