HARRIERS FOR FOX-HUNTING 



which hunted a grass and stone- wall country 

 in the West Riding of Yorkshire. These Httle 

 hounds were wonderfully fast, and accounted for 

 some thirty or more hares per season. Foxes 

 were then very scarce in the district, and though 

 we were always hoping to find one in order to see 

 how the pack would perform, we only once hit 

 off Reynard's line. Hounds settled to it at once, 

 but after running some distance a hare jumped 

 up, and the pack turned their attention to their 

 legitimate quarry. This brief experience of 



huntmg fox with beagles did not of course afford 

 much of an object lesson, and unfortunately since 

 then we have had no further opportunity ot 

 repeating the experiment. It was with great 

 interest therefore that we read an article by Mr. 

 George A. Fothergill, in Baily's Magazine for 

 April, 1921, on " Fox-hunting with Beagles — 

 at Aldershot." We always cherished the idea 

 that a pack of 15 in. beagles could hunt and kill 

 a fox if given a fair chance to do so, and Mr. 

 Fothergill's article proves that this assumption 

 was correct. The account of the work done by 

 the Aldershot Command Beagles is so interesting, 

 that we take the liberty of quoting from it. It 

 was during the season of 1916-17 that these beagles 

 started hunting fox one day a week, in order to 

 provide sport for slightly disabled officers, and 

 also because foxes weie numerous and hares 

 scarce. Hounds had previously killed a fox 

 in 1899, when they ran a four and a half mile 

 point. Again in February, 1913, they ran into 

 a fox after a fast thirty-five minutes. In the 

 season of 1918-19, they accounted for 4^ brace of 

 toxes before the end of Decembei, and though 

 some if not all of these foxes may have been 

 young, it was a capital performance nevertheless. 



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