ERRATA
[Page 24], line 16: for twenty-one read twenty-three.
[Page 110], line 2 from bottom: for sixty read thirty.
Transcriber’s Note: the errata have been corrected.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| FACING PAGE | |
| 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] |
| “Pincher” and “Myrtle,” Two Coniston Hunt Terriers | [90] |
| “Jummy,” a Terrier which did much Good Work for the Coniston Hunt | [90] |
| Ullswater Foxhounds: Gone to Ground below High Pike in the Scandale Valley, Windermere Lake in Distance | [92] |
| Coniston Foxhounds: Watching a Hunt from Broad Howe “Borran,” at the Head of the Troutbeck (Windermere) Valley | [96] |
| Coniston Foxhounds: Rough Going near Dove Crag | [102] |
| Coniston Foxhounds: George Chapman, the Huntsman, with Fox, after a Kill in Greenburn | [104] |
| Blencathra Foxhounds: Ernest Parker, the Whipper-in, after a Kill at Raven Crag, near Thirlmere Lake, Nov. 7th, 1919 | [105] |
| Ullswater Foxhounds: Opening Meet, Oct. 11th, 1919. Left—W. H. Marshall, Esq., M.F.H. Right—B. Wilson, the Whipper-in | [107] |
| (Waiting for a fox to bolt from an earth below High Pike in the Scandale Valley) | |
| Coniston Foxhounds: Hounds and their Huntsman in the Scandale Valley | [110] |
| Coniston Foxhounds: After a Kill near Coniston | [110] |
| Coniston Foxhounds: After a Kill in Woundale | [111] |
| Coniston Foxhounds: After a Kill on Nab Scar, Rydal | [111] |