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couple of lovely (< hare pie " bitches, with character 

 enough for anything, without any lumber about 

 them, and minus the thick, heavy bone of the 

 foxhound. I was told the master had twenty 

 couple at home quite as good, his pack being 

 all round about 19^ inches at the shoulder. 



Mr. Webber had some pretty harriers at the same 

 Exeter show, at which hounds formed certainly the 

 feature. I need scarcely say that harriers like the 

 Seavington caught the judge's eyes at Peterborough 

 though they were hardly used that year when the 

 Brookside beat them. The latter is one of the oldest 

 harrier packs in the country, and it is said that it 

 has hunted round about Rottingdean, near Brighton, 

 for over 1 20 years. The present master, Mr. Steyning 

 Beard, has a lot of hounds that it would be difficult 

 to equal, as their success both in the field and in 

 the ring will testify. There is in existence a painting 

 of a pied hare that was killed on Lewes Downs by 

 the Brookside harriers in 1771. 



Two or three packs of hounds, running to not 

 more than 18 inches, are to be found in Wales, 

 whilst other excellent hounds in the list of the 

 Rural Almanac are those of Colonel Ridehalgh, 

 which hunt round about Bowness and Winder- 

 mere, in the Lake district. Although, compara- 

 tively speaking, small, I can scarcely call them 



