. England's oldest hunt : being chapters of the history of the Bilsdale, Farndale and Sinnington Hunts, collected during several years. out of it*Mr. Lowndes, as I have said, came to Bilsdale and provedhimself a good sportsman, and a fellow after their own had much to learn, though I believe he had huntedharriers since his boyhoods days, and nothing teachespatience, nothing provides so much hound work as hunting the timid hare. In Bill Nichol, who had been with the Cleveland, he hada useful whip, and a man who helped him much in kennelmanagement after his arrival. The new soon
. England's oldest hunt : being chapters of the history of the Bilsdale, Farndale and Sinnington Hunts, collected during several years. out of it*Mr. Lowndes, as I have said, came to Bilsdale and provedhimself a good sportsman, and a fellow after their own had much to learn, though I believe he had huntedharriers since his boyhoods days, and nothing teachespatience, nothing provides so much hound work as hunting the timid hare. In Bill Nichol, who had been with the Cleveland, he hada useful whip, and a man who helped him much in kennelmanagement after his arrival. The new soon fellout of love with Bilsdale hound blood, and commencedshooting and exporting, keeping one or two bitches which 128 Englands oldest hunt. he thought looked like suiting the hills, and which had agood cry. One Bilsdale bitch, which he retained, bred someexcellent litters. He imported fresh blood, as in a measurehe was compelled to do, for the hounds he at first kennelledcommenced killing sheep, causing no end of trouble andexpense. They ran and killed several sheep in Bilsdaleitself prior to the regular season, and it was owing. H. W. SELBY LOWNDES. to this that John Boyes, then of Castleton, who hada small pack of hounds of his own with which he hunted apart of the Farndale country, was consulted by Mr. had a wide experience of moorland hunting, and ofeverything connected with venery, and the Master of theBilsdale asked him if he could stop hounds from sheeping when they had once commenced. Boyes answered in theaffirmative, and Mr. Lowndes asked what course he wouldadopt : Id shoot everyone that looked at a sheep, wasthe reply. At first, the did not care to adopt sodrastic a step, but finding he could not stop them, he secured MR. H. W. SELBY LOWNDES AS 129 the services of Boyes as whip, and they bought muzzles*for the whole pack, took them out on to the moors, walkedthem for hours amongst sheep, and every hound which madea point at one sealed its
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