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pure Welsh hound, either of harrier or of foxhound 

 stamp (for there are two varieties), with the wire- 

 haired, crisp coat. The colours are various, a few 

 being black and tan, whilst ordinary hound markings, 

 and such as are of a dark grizzled red and white, 

 appear to be most in favour. 



In going through the annual hunt table published 

 in the Field on Oct. 17, 1896, I found there were 

 some twenty-four packs of hounds kennelled in 

 Wales, but only one is alluded to as Welsh, and 

 this is the Merthyr Old Court pack, which are 

 Welsh harriers, but their height is not given. 

 They hunt from near Merthyr Tydvil. There 

 are Welsh hounds in the Llangibby and also in 

 the Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen. As already 

 said, masters of otter hounds value the strain or 

 variety highly. Mr, T. P. Lewes, who hunts from 

 Ffosrhydgaled, Llanfarian, near Aberystwith, has a 

 few couples of pure bred wire-haired Welsh fox- 

 hounds ; and in the Ynysfor, whose kennels are at 

 Ynysfor, Merionethshire, the variety may be found as 

 already alluded to. Mr. J. H. Jefferson, Cocker- 

 mouth, secretary of the West Cumberland Hunt, 

 tells me that they have one or two Welsh hounds, 

 which are valued highly, and they would breed more 

 of them were they able to find suitable material. 



The Hon. H. C. Wynn, at Rug, near Corwen, 



