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particular about their marking or colour ; in fact, 

 blue-mottled harriers, with a dash of tan in them, 

 were often enough to be found, and considered a 

 favourite colour until the foxhound cross was 

 introduced. We have seen that show judges will 

 award prizes to black and tan harriers, but fox- 

 hounds of that colour would soon be sent to the 

 right about. 



One of the most notable harrier packs is the Peni- 

 stone, that are not " harriers " at all, but old Southern 

 hounds, said to be without foxhound or other cross 

 for two hundred years ; and equally old and pure are 

 the Edenbridge, which are called pure Old English 

 hounds. 



The Hon. C. Bampfylde had the Aldenham Piper 

 and Valiant at Peterborough in 1891, when one of our 

 best hound judges described the first named as about 

 the best hound he ever saw, so straight in front, where 

 they often fail, Belvoir tan marked and generally as 

 '' handsome as paint." This from a *' foxhound 

 man," who can, as a rule, see no hound so perfect 

 as his own fancy, is praise indeed. Other noted 

 packs are Mr. J. S. Gibbon's (the Boddington) ; the 

 Craven, hunting from Gargrave, in Yorkshire, and 

 from whence some hounds were sent to America last 

 century ; the Fox Bush, the old pack was destroyed 

 on account of rabies in 1880; the Holcombe, 



