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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. 



Sundry packs of harriers, running to not more 

 than 18 inches, are to be found in Wales; whilst 

 other excellent hounds in the list of the Rural 

 Ahnanac are the Windermere harriers (late Colonel 

 Ridehalgh's), of which Mr. Bruce Logan is the 

 master ; they hunt round about Bowness and 

 Windermere in the Lake district. Although, 

 comparatively speaking, small — they are about 

 18-inch hounds — I can scarcely call them pure 

 harriers, though useful hounds, that have to hunt 

 and " find " for themselves, and surmount " the dark 

 brow of the mighty Helvellyn " often enough when 

 the meet lies near the foot of the mountain at 

 Wythburn. Heavy hounds would no more do for 

 hunting the hares here than they would do for 

 killing foxes. And with the Windermere harriers 

 the runs are longer and actually more interesting 



