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their tributaries. It is a subscription pack (minimum, 

 £1, IS.), and meets on Wednesdays and Saturdays. This 

 hunt, being close to London, is a favourite one. 



Essex 



A subscription pack meeting three days a week, and 

 composed of sixteen couples of hounds, one half being 

 Foxhounds and the other half Otter-hounds. The 

 rivers of Essex and Suffolk, likewise Herts, Cambs and 

 Norfolk, are hunted by this pack, and very good sport is 

 obtained, although the rivers are difficult to hunt, being 

 slow, deep and overgrown with rushes in many parts. 



Mr David Davies's Hounds 



These hounds are the property of the Master, and com- 

 prise sixteen couples, some pure Otter-hounds, but the 

 majority Foxhounds. It hunts the upper portions of 

 the Severn, Wye and Ellen, as well as other places. 



East of Scotland Otter-hounds 



The kennels of these hounds are close to Haddington, 

 and the pack comprises eleven couples of rough Otter- 

 hounds. It hunts the following rivers: Tweed, Tyne, 

 Blackadder, Whiteadder, South Esk, Eden, Orr, Soltan, 

 and many other rivers in which otters are numerous. 

 It was established in 1904 and subscriptions received. 



Dumfriesshire 



The kennels of this pack are at Annan, the hounds of 

 which hunt all rivers in the south of Scotland up to Ayr- 

 shire, there being about fourteen otters killed in a season. 

 It is a subscription pack, consisting of sixteen couples 

 of pure-bred Otter-hounds, and was established in 1889 

 by Mr W. Davison, assisted by others. The hounds 



