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FOXHUNTING ON THE LAKELAND FELLS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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Bruce Logan, Esq., M.F.H., Master of the Coniston Foxhounds and the Windermere Harriers Frontispiece
Fell Hunting Country: The High Street Range, from Troutbeck Park 4
Fell Hunting Country: The High Street Range, from Wansfell 4
Coniston Foxhounds: Hounds and their Huntsman climbing Steel Fell, in the Snow 10
Coniston Foxhounds: A Kill in the Snow on Steel Fell, near Grasmere 12
Charles Wilson, Esq., Ex-Master and Huntsman of the Oxenholme Staghounds 14
(Mr. Wilson formed this pack in 1887, and was Master and huntsman for over thirty seasons)
Coniston Foxhounds: After a Kill in the Low Country 18
(An admiring audience of boys looking at the fox)
Coniston Foxhounds: Bruce Logan, Esq., M.F.H., and Robert Logan, Esq., Deputy Master 20
Broad Howe: A “Borran” or Earth at the Head of the Troutbeck (Windermere) Valley 28
(This is a very strong place, and is typical of the fell-country fox-earths)
Looking into Broad Howe “Borran” from above, after Men had worked for a Week to rescue Two Terriers, One of which died below Ground 28
The Armistice 38
A Three-Weeks-Old Fox Cub 40
Fox Cubs, Three Weeks Old 40
A Dog-Fox Cub, Ten Days Old 42
(Note white tag to immature brush)
Miss Hilda Chapman (Daughter of Anthony Chapman, Ex-Huntsman of the Windermere Harriers) and her Pet Fox, “Jacky” (Three Years Old) 42
“Cracker,” late of the Coniston Pack: A Big Hound of the Fell Type 50
“Mischief,” late of the Coniston Pack: A Bitch of the Fell Type 50
Coniston Foxhounds: The Pack 54
Coniston Foxhounds: The Pack in Kennels at Greenbank, Ambleside 54
Ullswater Foxhounds: The Pack with their Huntsman. Opening Meet, Oct. 11th, 1919 58
Coniston Foxhounds: At the “Travellers’ Rest” Inn, on the Summit of the Kirkstone Pass (1469 ft.) 64
Coniston Foxhounds: Waiting for the Pack on the Fell 64
Blencathra Foxhounds: on Right, George Tickell, Esq., Ex-Deputy Master (1907-1919) 70
(Mr. Tickell has hunted regularly since he was a boy at school, thus covering a total of nearly seventy years. He is “still going strong”)
Fell Country Huntsmen: Left—George Chapman, Huntsman, Coniston Foxhounds. Right—Jim Dalton, Huntsman, Blencathra Foxhounds 74
Ullswater Foxhounds: Joe Bowman, the Huntsman 76
Blencathra Foxhounds: Gone to Ground on Armboth Fell 77
Blencathra Foxhounds: After a Kill at Raven Crag, near Thirlmere Lake, Nov. 7th, 1919 77
Ullswater Foxhounds: Opening Meet at Brotherswater, Oct. 11th, 1919 80
(Joe Bowman, the huntsman, talking to two of the field)
Ullswater Foxhounds: Joe Bowman, Huntsman (since 1879), watching Hounds at Work in Low Wood, near Brotherswater. Opening Meet, Oct. 11th, 1919 84
Coniston Foxhounds: “Gone to Ground” 86
(Hunters working their way into a “borran”)
Ullswater Foxhounds: B. Wilson, the Whipper-in, with Fox killed in Scandale Valley, Oct. 11th, 1919 87

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