For the sound of his horn brought me from my bed/ And the cry of his hounds which he oft times led/ Peel’s ‘View, Halloo!’ could awaken the dead/ Or the fox from his lair in the morning.
Back in the early 1800s, the legendary huntsman John Peel galloped all over the northern Lake District.
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