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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 |
FOXHUNTING ON THE LAKELAND FELLS
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