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the Worcester Park Beagles took its place. The Sur- 

 biton had then been in existence for three or four 

 seasons, and though the kennels of either pack are 

 within a few miles of the other, there is no clashing, 

 each having its own particular parts of the country. 

 Another pack within reach of Town are the Stoke 

 Place, whose kennels are not far from Slough, and 

 these hounds are a little smaller than the Surbiton or 

 Worcester Park, and are also well known at the shows. 

 This pack has been some fifteen or sixteen years in 

 existence, but a much newer pack which has achieved 

 great celebrity, both on the show bench and in the 

 field, is the Halstead Place, whose operations are con- 

 fined to a district of North Kent, and of which Mr. 

 James Russel is the master. There are, too, a pack at 

 Buckland Court, near Betchworth, but this pack, the 

 Stoke Place (of which Mr. H. H. Howard Vyse is 

 master), and the Halstead Place are all private packs, 

 whereas the Surbiton and the Worcester Park are 

 subscription packs. 



It has been stated that harriers of the dwarf fox- 

 hound type have in recent years become more fashion- 

 able than the old sorts, and this is to some extent an 

 outcome of the establishing of the Harrier and Beagle 

 Stud Book. Previously there had been a growing ten- 

 dency towards foxhound blood, and in some countries 

 nothing had been used for many years except under- 

 sized foxhounds. The Peterborough Show has also 

 had much to do with setting the fashion, for in these 

 days no harrier has a chance of recognition from the 

 judges unless he is a foxhound in miniature. He must 

 not only have the make and shape of a foxhound, and 

 the bone, but he must be perfectly straight, and clean 

 about his neck and shoulder. Now it is quite certain 



