Wonderful Feat By a John Peel Foxhound.

A wonderful feat by a Blencathra foxhound, a third season hound “Ruby”, a descendant of one of four foxhounds presented at the death of the famous john Peel by his trustees to the late Mr Crozier, the Master of the Blencathra Foxhounds has come to light.

The Blencathra, after a great day’s hunting, killed two foxes at Wanthwaite Crag but “Ruby” had left the pack in the Thirlmere valley, and climbed over Helvellyn for Matterdale, and was not seen again that day.

She turned up next day at the home of a farmer in Braithwaite valley, who walked her when she was a puppy, and afterwards came the news that “Ruby” had run a fox to Newton Rigg, in the Penrith district, and killed.

The fox was a twister, and it is estimated that the hound could not have traversed less than thirty miles before she pulled it down.

The Scotsman 1st March 1920.