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CHAPTER IV. 



We now come to owners of a pack of 

 harriers. Such are seldom kept but by those 

 who can well afford it ; there is not show and 

 dash enough about the thing to induce the 

 young and thoughtless to enter on it. So they 

 are mostly a serviceable pack kept by farmers, 

 or a well-appointed one by the squire ; I scarcely 

 recollect such a thing as a pack kept by a very 

 young man, except Duckinfield Astley. It is 

 like chess, too sturdy a game for them. I plead 

 guilty to the same feeling myself; I chiefly 

 went with harriers as a school for hunters, and 

 it is the best for that purpose that I know 

 of. 



The owners of harriers, even supposing them 

 to be kept at the owners' own expense, to be 



