96 HARE-HUNTING AND HARRIERS 



find a lifetime too long in which to breed a pack of 

 hounds exactly to your ideal." 



The case for the Stud-book harrier could hardly 

 be more effectually stated than it is here by Mr. Gibbons. 

 The conclusion of the whole matter must be that for 

 different countries different types are required. There 

 must be " give and take " in these things, and so long 

 as the old English harrier is not swamped by foxhound 

 blood, no one — not even the keenest supporter of the 

 ancient type — can have much reason to complain. 

 After all, England is wide enough to accommodate 

 the partisans of every type of hound. 



