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and summits of the hills afford .a vantage- 

 ground from whence the work of the hounds 

 can be seen and their heart- stirring melody 

 be heard by members of the fair sex, and 

 those whose locks are sprinkled with the 

 silver threads of Time, and whose activity 

 is not commensurate with their will. The 

 Crickhowell Harriers hunt two days a week, 

 with an occasional by-day. Last season 

 was very much broken by frost and im- 

 possible weather, but nevertheless thirty-nine 

 hares were accounted for, and in 1900-1 

 there were forty-seven hares killed. Hare 

 hunting with them ends about the first week 

 in March, and after resting the hounds for a 

 month, they hunt fox for a few weeks, and 

 hunt to kill, as the foxes do such an immense 

 amount of damage amongst the young lambs. 

 On these occasions they meet as early as 

 5 a.m., and kill every fox they possibly can. 

 Foxhounds rarely, if ever, hunt the district. 



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