Jonny Who !!!!!

[gonetoearth 5,144]

I was stood in the shed as i did most nights after school on my way home , my mate was a taxidermist a talented man years older than me but pointed me on in the right direction , as i stood watching him skin a fox The gate opened down his path his dog ran down and licked the oncoming stranger to death, a big dog but soft as shite , You stuff animals the bloke said , yeh what you got He walked back down the path and came back in with a long body wrapped in news paper , come in come in me mate waved him in. , the bloke unwrapped the parcel layer by layer uncovering the biggest fish id ever seen. I stared at it , Salmon that says my learned friend said a cock too. Whats it weight , ain't got clue mate 1976 Year of the drought. Hot summers days , awaiting the tale of daring do the fight beetween man and fish hours of casting , the take the fight getting it ashore , The bloke stared at the fish then said ive been up the lakes mate. Stopped on a bridge seen that fooker trapped in a pool. I ran down and hit it over the head with a cream soda lemo bottle!!!! Stuff it mate how much The deal was done and off he went , i stood there and then my eye was attracted to the paper the fish was wrapped in. My memory escapes me but i think it was the kendal gazzete or some thing of that nature , the pages were covered in fish slime and had stuck together I peeled them. Man charged with drunk and disorderly etc etc then i seen it hunt diary lunedale foxhounds meet at writington hospital Near ormskirk. My eyes lit up A real hunt only 15 miles up the road. Wednesday it was Tuesday night paper in pocket of i went home , set me alarm for soft oclock and jumped up as it rang It was a school day and I had to sneak out by now id acquired a black terrier stuffed him into a ruck sack grabbed some thing to eat and sneaked out the door getting my. Order bike out of the shed , ruck sack on my back terrier head poking out of the top. Off i set , now any one from lancs will know this part of the world is flat flat as holland except beetween. Ormskirk and writington

Theres MOUNT KILLYMAN PARBOLD HILL lol A popular hill with budding Tour de france hill climbers but on a paper boys order bike with a terrier in a sack. It was everest lol. An hour it took me pushing puffing and panting up that fooking hill once at the top it was a view over the planes of lancashire right across to southport and in the distance wales. No time to. Stop jumped on and off i went down the then windy lane Reaching writington hostipital grounds car park , empty no one to be seen i approached a car that pulled in. Hunt mate always remember the face on the fella. Puzzled as i repeated hunt mate. No he said my names brown colin brown , no mate fox hunt lol as i was just giving up a van pulled in with to old fellas in who seen my attire british armys best and rucksack with a terriers head pocking out the top , he called me over and said bee tham ponds lad in an hoor , funny fookers them only up the road and speak like aliens lol any way made my way futher along the road over a humped bridge to see both sides of the road big lakes full of liilys coots calling and swans with young , seems the hostipital called in the hunt every year as the duck swans etc were getting ambushed by the red fellas just think of that nowadays , we waited me and my new mates compo and cleggy who could not understand me coming all that way , more and more people arrived. Then at half nine on the dot a landrover pulling a sheep trailor came through the gate hounds heads hanging out of every open flap. As it stopped they barked with anticipation and got even more excited when a man got out with a red waist coat and stood there i looked him up and down big hob nailed boots breaches With bulging sides he reached back in and pulled out a hat black big looking thing . then a red coat he put it on he grew in stature or he did to me , JONNY NICK that lad Johnny who i replied. Johnny nickleson lad of the lunesdale foxhounds still made no sence to a kid who had only seen half a doz hound bushing to guns , he let out the hounds. Proper hounds no disrespect to anything id seen before but these looked like athletes ready to run a marathon , then the driver went in the back and got out two blackntans and a black terrier put them on leather leads with a chain in the middle. Reet then we'er too said the man in the red coat Off we went me with my terrier following the hunt . The day that followed was nothing special. By other days that followed my addiction or even the fox they put to ground and was bolted as fast as it had gone in by a blackntan and shot It was more my first site of a huntsman dressed in the proper gear followed by a terrier man with terriers on couplings as i found out they were called , the day finished in a pub but i had to go mount killyman parbold hill beckoned and home , on arrivel at my house there were the were have you been look at the state of you !!!! MAM CAN I have another TERRIER. !!!!!!! couplings on my mind lol

Edited September 28, 2013 by gonetoearth

[mighty celt 996]

great read again cheers.

[BIG TOM 835]

Haha nice read that mate fair play

[jharrison_2009 8]

yes another good read cheers

[neil cooney 10,416]

Enjoyed that.

[SINDASOX 256]

Good Story.....MOUNT KILLYMAN PARBOLD HILL ....lol....enjoyed that tale.

 

 

SINDASOX

[patterdale666 1,620]

Another good read keep up the good work GTE

[staffs riffraff 1,068]

Great read again

[TOPPER 1,809]

i enjoyed that brought back memories of when i was a kid

[gonetoearth 5,144]

THERE will be some one on telling me its cruel to carry a terrier in a ruck sack lol

[Rat face 1,655]

nice read that mate,

[Snoz 29]

Nice read and brought back memories of following the lunesdale when johnny nick was huntsman, that man could have a walk!!!!! Second only to Dennis Barrow IMO they could really put a lad who thought he was fit in his place. I've never recovered from my guided tour of eagles crag by Mr Barrow and the ullswater!!!!

[milliken 791]

great read that thanks

 

robert

[Mudcat 95]

Enjoyed the story!

 

Mark

[TonyOrmy 128]

great stuff mate