1-J PREFACE. 



tliis country have, is daily improving by their intercourse 

 with sportsmen and their followers from the South, and 

 they now intermix their sentences with many words spoken 

 as correctly as they are in any part of England. 



The superstitions and traditions which form some portion 

 of the following pages, being current in the country, have 

 probably found their way into other publications ; of this 

 I know nothing it may or may not be so I can only 

 say that I had them from the best authorities, and from 

 the fountain-head. It has come, however, to my know- 

 ledge, since I have sent these pages to the press, that the 

 trial of Duncan Terig has been mentioned in Sir W. Scott's 

 Demonology. Had I known this before, I should not 

 perhaps have dwelt so long upon the story, interesting as 

 it is. 



As to the graphic illustrations of the sport, I am happy 

 to say that I have had the benefit of the talents of two 

 most eminent gentlemen of the same family; the fron- 

 tispiece and vignette are from the celebrated hand of 

 Edwin Landseer. The figures and animals in the litho- 

 graphs are, with one exception only, drawn by Charles 

 Landseer, author of, " The Parting Benediction," and other 

 well-known splendid works. The exception is the plate 

 which represents the " Looking for a Wounded Deer," for 



