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The Book of the Horse. 



round Slough, in Buckinghamshire — formerly Prince Albert's — were pure harriers ; a pack 

 hunting near Dartford, in Kent, with a great reputation for showing sport in an enclosed 

 country without ditches, were half-bred fox-hounds, and nineteen inches high. Admiral Lord 

 Phillips hunted near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, with a pack of very small harriers ; Sir 

 Francis Winnington, in Worcestershire, with dwarf fox-hounds ; at Torquay the pack was 

 composed of harriers. 



Amongst the curiosities of former days were the Hallamshire "heavy harriers," which 

 were trencher-fed, have never had kennels, and are assembled at the sound of a horn blown 



LIGHT-WEIGHT HUNTER. 



on a hill, and hunted for the amusement of the Sheffield journeymen cutlers. Several Welsh, 

 Westmoreland, and Cumberland packs have been kept in the same manner from time 

 immemorial. 



The Welsh, Devonshire, and other mountain packs, frequently hunt everything, from a 

 foumart to a fox, from hare to an outlying deer. 



Devonshire probably supports more packs of hare-hounds than any county in the kingdom. 



In the first quarter of the present century, it is in the recollection of a sexagenarian 

 squire, who himself hunted his father's scratch pack of fox-hounds, that nearly every rector 

 in North Devon kept a pack of hounds for the amusement and with the help of his parishioners, 

 and that there were at that time not less than forty packs of one kind or another north of 

 the river Exe. Amongst these parsons were the Rev. Mr. Froude, who, with his ferocious 

 pack of fox-beagles, hunting deer, hare, fox, and human beings indifferently, has been the 

 subject of one of Mr. Blackmore's sensational novels. Another parson, Barter, of a milder 



