Welsh Hounds. 1 75 



are actually only Welsh in name, and much con- 

 fusion has been caused by the inference conveyed 

 by many writers that all foxhounds and harriers in 

 the Principality are of the old wiry-haired or hard- 

 coated strain. Such is far from being the case, and 

 it is doubtful whether even the hounds of Squire 

 Talbot, which, to the glory of the pure Welsh 

 hounds, are credited with an extraordinary run from 

 Margam to Llanelly, were quite, free from " foreign " 

 strain. 



Not very long ago a hunting correspondent of the 

 Field was astonished to find a so-called pack of 

 Welsh hounds the common foxhounds of the shires 

 and elsewhere ; and so recently as last year the 

 writer went over to Aldridge's to see a pack of 

 Welsh hounds which had been sent up, from the 

 neighbourhood of Aberystwith, for sale. These, too, 

 were English foxhounds, many of them of fashion- 

 able blood, and none of them had an atom of ''wire- 

 haired " coat to denote that they were originally 

 descended from the native hound of the Princi- 

 pality. This was Mr. Vaughan Davies' pack. 



x\t the time the Gelly hounds were in their prime, 

 there was another noted Welsh pack kept by the 

 late Squire Jenkins, Lanharran (uncle of the present 

 squire), but they differed greatly from the ''Gelly" in 

 colour, for they were mostly white — lemon and white 



