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which contains the greatest amount of " pure Welsh 

 blood " is that of the Ynysfor, hunting round about 

 Penrhyn Deudraeth, Merionethshire, and of which 

 Mr. John Jones is the master. This is a smallish 

 pack of thirteen couples, which hunts pretty much 

 all the year round, after the season for fox being 

 over, otter hunting being successfully followed. The 

 country is perhaps as rough as any in the United 

 Kingdom, and Mr. Jones finds the Welsh wire haired 

 hounds, of which about half his pack is constituted, 

 the best animals for his purpose. They have been 

 in his family for three generations, which extend in 

 this case over one hundred years. The father of 

 the present master bred from the hounds of old 

 Mr. Rumsey Williams, of Penrhos, who kept a 

 pack, mostly of Welsh blood, near Carnarvon at the 

 beginning of the century, and in a great measure 

 the present Ynysfor hounds are largely descended 

 from them. Fresh blood has from time to time 

 been obtained from various districts in South Wales, 

 where the rough haired hound is generally believed 

 to have been originally produced, or, at any rate, 

 two or three generations back, it was more easily to 

 be found there than elsewhere. 



More recently, Mr. Jones secured new crosses 

 from the kennels of the late Colonel Pryse, of 

 Peittyll, near Aberystwith, and from other hunts 



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