CHAPTER V 



MODERN HARRIERS 



Southern hound out of date — Modern harriers — 

 Mr. Yeatman's record — " Stonehenge " on the harrier 

 — Devonshire a stronghold of pure harriers — Other 

 locahties — Revival of interest in pure harriers — Three 

 schools of harrier-men — Analysis of packs — Blend 

 of foxhound common — Danger of in-and-in breeding 

 — Cross-bred harriers — Pure foxhound too fast for the 

 hare — Height of modern harriers — Colour, shape, 

 and other qualities — Good looks not always to be 

 trusted — Points of a hound — Pack must be level — 

 Stud-book Harriers and Peterborough Hound Show 

 — Remarks of Colonel Robertson Aikman, Mr. C. 

 Garnett, and Mr. J. S. Gibbons 



The revulsion of feeling against the old Southern 

 hound and its methods which, as I have shown, had 

 already taken place by the middle of the eighteenth 

 century, rapidly gained strength, so much so that by 

 the end of the first quarter of the nineteenth century not 

 only were a large number of Masters using a strong cross 

 of foxhound blood, but others were hunting the hare 

 with pure foxhounds. From the sporting literature of 

 that time and long after one might have gathered that 

 there was scarcely any pure harrier blood left hunting 

 in England at all. If " Nimrod " and his followers could 

 have had their way, it is certainly pretty evident that 

 by this time the dwarf foxhound, pure and simple, 



