36 HARE-HUNTING AND HARRIERS 



harrier-man, which for many years was maintained. The 

 sport which had sufficed their fathers and grandfathers, 

 and yet remoter ancestors, became unfashionable. 

 " Currant Jelly " was invented as a term of reproach. 

 And harriers and hare-hunting may be said to have 

 remained unfashionable until a dozen or fifteen years 

 since, when some decline in the extraordinary popu- 

 larity of fox-hunting, and other causes, of which I shall 

 speak hereafter, led to that distinct revival of interest 

 in a somewhat neglected sport, which now shows, 

 year by year, signs of a vigour and vitality that 

 would have been thought impossible during the heyday 

 of fox-hunting fifty or sixty years ago. 



