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concerned he was the beagler to the life, wearing a 

 smart green jacket with a scarlet collar, knicker- 

 bockers, and a black velvet cap, specially made, and 

 less than half the weight of an ordinary hunting cap. 

 That he wore white kid gloves, with two or three rings 

 over them, will be no surprise to those who were 

 acquainted with his lordship, but the comic element 

 was forthcoming in a couple of scarlet-jacketed per- 

 sonal attendants, who each carried a neat and very 

 light ladder of about four feet in height. The fact is 

 that the country abounds in high stone walls, and Lord 

 Anglesey was not very young. He therefore used 

 these ladders whenever a big wall came in the line. 

 One attendant would scramble over and place his 

 ladder for the descent, while the other with his ladder 

 helped Lord Anglesey on the near side. Still, as we 

 have stated, the sport was good, and the arrangement 

 for getting about a simple and sensible one, no matter 

 how comic it appeared. 



In more recent years we have had the opportunity of 

 seeing many other packs of harriers and beagles, 

 especially two very smart packs of beagles, viz. the 

 Surbiton and the Worcester Park, and these little 

 hounds, which are kept as nearly as possible to a 

 uniform height of 15I inches, are not only very good 

 in their work, but hold their own on the show bench 

 as well. Moreover, they kill a fair proportion of the 

 hares they hunt, and each pack is followed by a most 

 enthusiastic field. And as a matter of fact, packs of 

 beagles are ousting harriers in what may be called the 

 metropolitan districts. Previous to 1886 the Morden 

 Harriers hunted a large district of Northern Surrey, 

 but when Mr. Charles Blake had completed a twenty- 

 one years' mastership of the pack it was given up, and 



