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drooping ears, and possessed of a very deep voice, of 

 which they make plenty of use when at work. They 

 can hunt a very cold scent : their legs and feet are 

 not of the best from a hound point of view, which 

 is the case with all the old breeds of harrier ; their 

 colour is as a rule a blue mottle, with red and white 

 intermixed. 



There is another and smaller type of blue mottled 

 harrier which is more often met with in the South 

 of England. These are probably allied in blood to 

 the hounds I have been describing, but they cer- 

 tainly do not appear to be the same breed. They 

 are much smaller, their heads are different, and they 

 vary distinctly in build and general appearance from 

 their larger brethren in the North, whom they 

 resemble, however, in having plenty of music, and 

 being able to hunt a cold scent. If we go into Wales, 

 we find the old rough \Velsh harrier still existing, 

 though in diminishing numbers— a rough wiry-coated 

 hound, light of bone and build, and still a great 

 favourite with old-fashioned A\'elsh sportsmen in 

 moimtainous districts, where hounds have to do most 

 of their work alone, as their huntsman can only as a 

 rule be with them now and then during the chase. 

 If we cross the Severn sea to get into Devon and 

 Somerset and the West Country generally, the pre- 



