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Baron Piers de Raverschoot hunts the hare at Olsene with a pack 



of similar blood, but crossed with an English strain. At the time 



when he was Governor of Hainault, Baron du Sart de 



arious gQuiand hunted an excellent pack of crossed beagle 



and "briquet" in the country round Mons and d'Ath. 



M. du Roy de Blicquy hunts hares with hounds of the same race ; 



while MM. Dumont de Chassart own Saintonge hounds that enable 



them to hunt hares with peculiar success. 



It is very rarely that Belgian hounds run down a stag. The 



stags of the Ardennes are, as they used to say in the time of Gaston 



Phoebus, reputed impregnable by dogs, not only on 



__ ,. account of their strenoth, but also because of the various 



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difficulties of the country. The feat was accomplished 

 in 1840 by the pack belonging to Baron d'Hooghvorst and Count 

 Duval de Beaulieu ; and on the 26th October the admirable pack 

 belonging to MM. de Crawhez repeated the performance, for a great 

 stag with magnificent antlers was started in the fir woods of Merny, 

 near Paliseul, and was killed, after a run of four hours and a superb 

 fight in the water, at Glaireuse. Lastly, on the 24th October, 1898, 

 the same pack started a ten-pointer in the same place and killed 

 at Daverdys, after a run of an hour and forty minutes. 



II.— HAWKING 



In spite of individual attempts, it may fairly be said that falconry 

 has no existence in Belgium to-day. Thus, in a competition of hawks 

 at Spa, in August, 1899, only two competitors entered, Dr. Arbel, 



