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and wet, it is not impossible that some of them may be drowned. 

 My hounds," he goes on to say, "were a cross of both these 

 kinds, in which it was my endeavour to get as much bone and 

 strength in as small a compass as possible. I tried many years, 

 and an infinity of hounds, before I could get what I wanted, and 

 at last had the pleasure to see them very handsome, small, yet 

 very bony ; they ran remarkably well together, went fast enough, 

 had all the alacrity that could be desired, and would hunt the 

 coldest scent." 



The so-called Harrier of to-day in most externals is a facsimile 

 of the Foxhound. The " large and bagging lippes " of the days of 

 Caius, with the attendant abundance of dewlap, have been bred 

 out; the neck should be long and hairy, rising with a gradual 

 swell from the shoulders, which must be well placed, sloping back, 

 and clothed with muscle ; the fore arms strong, elbows well let 

 down, and in a straight line with the body ; the fore legs perfectly 

 straight, large of bone ; neat strong ankles, and a foot round, firm, 

 and close the knuckles arched, but not immoderately so, the 

 claws strong, and the sole firm and hard. The chest must be 

 capacious ; the back broad and strong, lined with hard muscle ; 

 the ribs, especially the back ones, well let down; the loin deep, 

 and, like the hindquarters, very strong ; the thighs very muscular ; 

 clean hocks, without a suspicion of leaning in towards each other, 

 and the leg from the hock down should be short and strong ; the 

 stern must be thick at the setting, and gradually tapering to the point, 

 well covered with hair, without being bushy, and carried gaily, 

 and almost straight. The whole build of the Harrier is most 

 symmetrical ; there should be, literally, no waste about him. In 

 texture the coat should be moderately fine, very dense, and the 

 colour various black, white and tan, blue mottles, black and tan, 

 badger pied, hare pied, and a variety of combinations, in which the 

 colours are often very beautifully blended. Delicacy of scent and 

 perseverance are essential qualities in the Harrier, and the tongue 

 should be rich and melodious. 



The Welsh Harrier is still to be met with. This is a rough 

 or shag-haired hound, more resembling the Otterhound than our 

 modern Harrier, in shape as well as in coat. He is much smaller 

 than the Otter-hound, but may be used for otter-hunting ; in fact, 

 like other varieties, he may be trained to hunt and to keep to any 

 particular quarry he is entered to, and taught that to chase other 

 game is riot. 



In England there are (in 1902), according to the Field list of 

 hounds, ninety-seven packs of Harriers kept; in Scotland, three 

 packs only ; and in Ireland, twenty-five packs ; besides these, there 

 are, in several parts of the country, what may be called scratch 

 packs, the hounds being the individual property of, and kept by, 



