The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
FOX HUNTING ON FOOT.
In England There Are Regions Where
 Horses Cannot Be Used.

In England There Are Regions Where
 Horses Cannot Be Used.
 Fox hunting in most of our English shires is a sport for the wealthy, but in the Lake country, as A. G. Bradley shows in the new number of Macmil- ian's Magazine, it can be enjoyed al sorts and conditions of men'-provided they are not "scant of breath" In this region a horse would be as useless as at the hunt in Liddesdale described in Guy Mannering, where the fox was slaugh- tered without any attention to the or dinary rules and decorum of sport" but, apparently, with quite as much qualification to both bipeds and qua adrupeds as if all due ritual had been followed" In Lakeland, also, though the fox is treated with more ceremony, notw1th- standing it's depredations among the lambs it has to be followed on foot, so that all can join the chase. No stronger testimony could be found to the local popularity of the sport than the simple monument in Threlke1d Churchyard, at the foot of Saddleback, which, as MT 1 Bradley remarks, has none other like 1t in this Kingdom. An inscription states | that 1t is raised in loving memory Of
 noted veterans of the chase, all of whom lie in this churchyard. Then follow the names of nearly forty 1 statesmen" tenant-farmers, and Vii- 1 laeers, all of whom have passed away 1 during the last forty years. and space IS l left for other names to be added in the future. Not one of these worthies oi their living successors ever donned pink or crossed horse to follow the tox' ye' what most of these men did not kno" about hunting is not, as the sayinF goes, worth knowing.
 Resides the Threlkeld pack there art four others in Lakeland, and IL IS Witi
 the Patterdale one that MT. Braoiea chiefly concerns himself. Sometimes I
 rarpas far afield, even to Crossfel anC tha moors around Kirkby Stephen; I
 baa run it's foxes-and killed them to'
 -arross the borders of Yorkshire,
 Durham, and even West Northumper Hand, The pack is less mscellaheou than that kept up by the Liddesoai l for,ners for the hounds do not mucl
 Affar in general appearance from thos of the Pytchley or the Quorn. Ihe' have we are told. 8 good deal or war wiclsh;re blood in them, but still mor of tthe old Welsh foxhound, Wlth u characteristics marking of pale lemol l and white"-altogether different Iron the small weedy hounds of Vlrginla
 The terriers however, are more m'scei larnous in aspect there, though they d not as in Liddesdale, take the chie
 mart bv driving the fox down to th 7 lower ground. when the swift deer t hounds are slipped on his track. Deed F rather than pedigree are their recon p lnendation, for the subterranean haunt
 of the fox in the Lakeland hills re r ouire no ordinary dog.
 When young and inexperienced the arc ant to run into dangers above a !; well as below ground by getting "binf
 ed'' or landed in a place from whlc tbev can neither advance nor fetrea f Sometimes they are lost for days t' | qather One that had gone hunting c " it's own account disappeared for # month. It was mourned for dead, b'
 lone morning ia dreadful apparition e hairless. fleshless, seemingly alrno a blind, "crawled into the cottage, stat > gered toward the hearth, flung ltse a down on the rug" and ultimately r a lowered. Once hound and two terrie