340 Tallyho. 



But needs must when you have a lot of eager 

 sportsmen close behind you who consider granite 

 boulders *^' trifles light as air," and gallop away 

 between them with consummate indifference. Running 

 our fox in and out of his stronghold, we finally lost 

 him, and proceeded to draw for another in an en- 

 closure, lying close to the spot where the School 

 of Telegraphy is established, a place where the young 

 idea is taught how to send messages across the 

 Atlantic ; and it was evident that the pupils located in 

 that dismal establishment, which is situated hard by 

 the inhospitable shore, welcome the coming of the 

 hunter with hound and horn, as a change from the 

 quietude and monotony of that dreary spot where the 

 cry of the sea gull and the roar of the sad sea waves is 

 all that is to be heard on ordinary occasions. 



Then a view halloo is heard, and a fox goes away, 

 but we could do very little good with him, and he was 

 speedily lost in the Cliffs. Whilst riding in these 

 parts it is as well to bear in mind that you are liable 

 to come across the shafts and adits of disused mines, 

 and it consequently behoves a stranger to look well 

 ahead, or, what is better, to pick out a good man and 

 play a game of "follow my leader" over this most 

 difficult, not to say dangerous hunting country. After 

 this we drew for a considerable time without finding 

 another fox, and finally we left off, with the prospect of 

 a long ride before us. 



The Western Hounds have had very good sport this 

 season, and the prospects for the ensuing are good, as 

 already there is a sprinkling of cubs in some parts. 

 To use the expression of the huntsman, " We don't go 

 in for killing foxes, we cannot afford to spare them. 



