ILLUSTRATIONS. 



xii ROYAL ROCK BEAGLE HUNT. 



CHAT. rAr.K. 



IX. Notable Runs - - - - - - 112 



X. Lunches ...... 125 



XI. The Country ...... 127 



Increase of Population - - - - 129 



Topography of Wirral .... i^i 



XII. The Landlords ..... j^^^ 



XIII. The Farmers ...... i_^q 



Barbed Wire ..... 152 



XIV. Shooting Men ...... 1^7 



Xy. The Hounds ...... ijg 



Formation of a Pack - -' - • - 160 



Breeding of Hounds .... 163 



Hounds in Kennel - - - - - 170 



R.R.B. Hounds at Work - - - - 174 



The Lurcher ...... 177 



XVL Hares, and Hare-Hunting .... 179 



Scent - - - . - - - 190 



Distribution of Hares .... 194 



Cruelty of Hunting . - . - - 196 



XVII. R.R.B. Visits to other Countries - - 198 



XVIII. Neighbouring Packs ..... 203 



The Cheshire Beagles .... 203 



The Wirral Harriers - . . . . 206 



The Llangollen Harriers - - - 207 



The Malpas Beagles - - . . . 209 



TO FACE PAGE 



Portrait of Tinley Barton ..... 35 



Ditto C. Rawson ..... 39 



Ditto V. A. King ...... 52 



R.R. Beaglers at Beeston ----- 86 



Ditto at Whitby ..... joi 



Ditto at Raby - - - - - iii 



Cheshire Beaglers at Crewe ..... 205 



Malpas Beaglers : A Kill .... - 210 



*»* It is to be regretted that the reproduction of the picture of Ancient 

 Beaglers at Beeston has not coir.e out well ; but the daguerreotype was very old 

 and faded. However, the lithographer lias done the best he could with it. 



