CHAPTER XIX. 



The Late Lord Bolton's Harriers, with 

 Extracts from his Diary. 



LORD BOLTON has kindly given me the 

 following account of his father's hounds, 

 which were kept at Bolton Hall. He 

 began with beagles, but they were found to be 

 impracticable, as they were unable to jump the 

 walls, and, consequently, had to be lifted over. 

 Then harriers were tried, but the walls were 

 rather more than they could manage, and, even- 

 tually, small foxhounds were adopted. He kept 

 a few red deer in paddocks behind the Hall, and 

 now and then used to enlarge one. 



Lord Bolton, commenting on one of these 

 runs, says, "I remember the run from Catterick 



