Deer Hunting with Harriers. Ill 



coverts were full of hares, and everybody said 

 it was perfectly useless me coming there with a 

 pack of harriers. There were fourteen deer out, 

 but we killed nine and drove the other five 

 back into the Park. After we had been the 

 last time Lord Royston said to me : 



'' Well Mr. Race, if I had not seen it done 

 I would not have believed it possible for a 

 pack of harriers to come here, with all these 

 hares running about in all directions, and for 

 your hounds to take no notice of them and 

 stick to the deer in the way they do. It is 

 wonderful." 



I have previously remarked that many 

 harrier men say you must not hunt deer or 

 foxes with harriers, or you will spoil them. 

 My experience confirms me in the opinion 

 that such objection is ''all rot." 



I have been to Waresley, deer-hunting, for a 

 fortnight, and then two days later we have been 

 hare-hunting again, and all I can say is that I 

 could see no difference in the way they hunted. 



A deer is a very clever animal to hunt. 

 Once I was running one in Weaveley Wood, 



