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HUNTING PRELIMINARIES. 



now strictly reserved for fox-hounds. Most Masters of 

 harriers would consider out-lying red or fallow deer to be 

 fair game. The Ripley and Knap Hill harriers, when Mr. 

 Seymour Dubourg was Master and Huntsman, had some 

 excellent sport with wild roe in the rough country round 

 Sandhurst. 



5. Drag-hounds are always fox-hounds. The usual drag is 

 the droppings and the bed of a tame fox, flavoured with 



Fig. 224. Old cut-and-laid hedge, about 4 ft. 6 in. high. 



aniseed, of which only a little should be employed ; because it 

 becomes blown about, and hounds are apt to run wild at it. 

 Many hounds hate aniseed and will not run it. A red-herring 

 in a hare-skin with a little aniseed is sometimes used. One of 

 the Middlesex packs of drag-hounds in the season of 1899- 

 1900, ran and took a stag which the Queen's had left out near 

 London. 

 Deer-hounds should not be confused with either stag- 



