"The earth hath bubbles as the water hath; And these are of them." But they were no bubbles; the bull was a substantial bull, and took no harm at all from being turned out occasionally at midnight for a chase of fifteen or eighteen miles. The bull, no doubt, used to wonder at this nightly visitation; and the owner of the bull must sometimes have pondered a little on the draggled state in which the swamps would now and then leave his beast; but no other harm came of it. INDEX. Abbot, Joseph, Bampton, and Tom "Dyer," 165, and Weightman, 190, 198 "A bit iv a lad stept oot of a corner o' the ring," 202 Alston town, description of, 135 " wrestlers, 135 Arlecdon moor wrestling meetings, 68 Armstrong, "Solid Yak," 131, 143, 151 Armstrong, Jacob, thrown by Weightman, 199 Ashburner, Tom, Grasmere, and Roan Long, 92 Atkinson, Robert, Sleagill giant, 8 BADGERS AND BADGER BAITING, 235 " at Naworth, 236 Balmer, John, nearly drowned in Windermere, 78 Bateman, William, Yottenfews, 176 Barrow, John, Windermere, 77 Bedlington terriers, 241 Best, George, Yarrow, xliv Bewick, Thomas, and his Ainstable cousin, 14, bull baiting, 222 Bigg, John Stanyan, quotation from, 134 Bird, George, Langwathby, 33 " Joseph, Holme Wrangle, 66, 71, 72 Border wrestling at Miles end, xlv Bowstead, John, brother to Bishop of Lichfield, 32 Bridewain or Bidden Weddings, 15 Brown, Rev. Abraham, wrestler, 63 Brunskill, George, and William Wilson, 185 BULL BAITING, 219 Bull-dogs and Bull-terriers, 240 Burns, Arthur, Ullater, and Roan Long, 92, 175 Caldbeck, familiar name at, 157 Carlisle wrestling, list of men who contended at first annual meeting, 107 Cass, William, and Tom Todd, 171, and Weightman, 184, 203, 204 Casson, Robert, Oxenpark, 177 Chapman, Richard, 33, 146, 167 Christopherson, Brian, Oxenpark, 176 Clark, William, Hesket-new-market, 153, 160 "Clattan," (_see_ Mc.Laughlan) Cock-fighting prohibited by the Puritans, xxvii Cock-fighting at Elleray and Alston, 142 "Cork lad of Kentmere," 3 Cornish wrestling, xxv, xxviii Cromwell, Oliver, at a wrestling meeting, xxvii Crow park, Keswick, 179 CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND WRESTLING, ANCIENT, 1 Dandie Dinmont terriers, 241 DENNISON, GEORGE, 141 " thrown by William Dickinson, 140, sets a dislocated shoulder in the Carlisle ring, 144 Devonshire wrestling, xxv, xxviii DICKINSON, WILLIAM, 135 DIXON, MILES, 74 " JAMES, 84-103 " George, "aw t' Dixons errant doon yet," 85 "Dixon's three jumps," 13 Dobson, John, Cliburn, 24, 163 Dodd, Adam, Langwathby, 24, 28, 32, 64 Dodd, Robert, Brough, 7 "Doon on ye'r knees, fadder, an' boo like a bull," 222 Eals, Sarah, Alston, a shrew, 140 Earl, John, Cumwhitton, 120, 160 Earl, William, and "Clattan," 212, 214 ENGLISH WRESTLING, OLD, xxiv Faulds Brow sports, 56 FAWCETT, JAMES, 36-24 Fearon, John, Gilcrux, 171, 172 Fidler, John, Wythop hall, 67 Ford, T., Ravenglass, 56, and Weightman, 189, 190