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Gentleman's Magazine 1899 part 2 p.552
off in a line), having apparently run to Swarthfell earth, near the foot of Ullswater, a distance of at least a dozen miles as the crow flies. Whether they killed the fox they pursued so far and so well cannot be told, but I have a great desire to believe that it escaped and is still ranging the fells. May it be in front of our pack next time I go fox-hunting with the shepherds! With such incidents as these to pass the time in the happening and their recounting, the shepherd's winter drags slowly through, and longer, brighter days at length proclaim the advent of another year.
WILLIAM T. PALMER.

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