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amount of time with harriers. These were a small 

 pack kept by a Mr. Clarke (we think), and their opera- 

 tions were chiefly confined to the Ledbury side of the 

 country, the foxhounds of that name only hunting 

 twice a week in those days. Mr. Clarke's pack were 

 big in size and small as regards numbers, but their 

 owner knew how a hare should be hunted, and was 

 very successful. Of the hounds we can remember little, 

 except that they had all the faults to look at which are 

 possible in a hound. 



A year or two later, about 1875 or 1876, the late Mr. 

 John Greenwell, of Broomshields, in the county of 

 Durham, got a pack together, and soon began to 

 show excellent sport. A born huntsman was Mr. 

 Greenwell, and to his natural gifts in that direction 

 was added an extraordinary amount of knowledge as 

 to everything connected with the hare. Like ourselves 

 he had served a boy apprenticeship to hunting, and 

 before he had harriers of his own he had been in the 

 habit of inviting every pack which was within reach of 

 the place to Broomshields. And he had, too, a won- 

 derful harehunting country at hand, wide-spreading 

 pastures of rough grass, separated with stone walls, 

 with few woodlands, and practically no population. 

 The meets were not advertised, cards being merely 

 sent to those who would appreciate the sport. Drafts 

 formed the pack at first, but some of these were not 

 big enough for the higher walls, and were quickly 

 passed on. About eleven to thirteen or fourteen 

 couples were the working pack, and uniformity in 

 height was aimed at, but large — or what was then 

 thought large — hounds were preferred, as Mr. Green- 

 well used at times to go long distances from home, 

 and the bigger hounds travelled home better than 



