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cord leggings, buttoned down the side, a cut-away 

 red coat, and a tall hat. He carries a horn, shaped 

 like a coach horn ; it measures three feet in length, 

 and has been in the possession of the hunt for two 

 hundred years. Quaint though the get-up, the results 

 are very satisfactory. Lancashire moorland hares 

 are proverbially stout, and the Holcombe show capital 

 sport. The Kirkham is another Lancashire pack — 

 twenty-one-inch Stud-book harriers this time — hunting 

 a country consisting almost entirely of pasture. They 

 have been established since 1834, ^^^ have long been 

 mastered by members of the Birley family. The 

 Pendle Forest I have already said something about. 

 They are a very old pack, dating from 1770, and con- 

 sist of twenty couples of twenty-one-inch hounds, 

 a cross of the foxhound and the old Lancashire hound. 

 They are admitted to the Harrier Stud-book ; they 

 hunt from Clitheroe over parts of north-east Lancashire, 

 and the country known as Craven, in the West 

 Riding of Yorkshire. No foxhounds hunt this country, 

 and the Pendle Forest pack hunt deer one day a week 

 after Christmas. 



Other Lancashire packs are the Rochdale, the 

 Rossendale, both hunting a pasture and moorland 

 country, Mr. Frank Wood's, hunting from Newton-le- 

 Willows, and the Vale of Lune. The Rochdale 

 are a particularly nice pack of hounds, showing a 

 good deal of the real old-fashioned harrier type ; 

 they consist of eighteen couples of twenty-one-inch 

 harriers, hunting three days a week, and kennelled 

 at Cronkeyshaw, a mile from Rochdale. I am enabled 

 to give a portrait of one of these hounds, Rattler, 

 who is as good at work as he is to look at. Captain 

 C. R. N. Beswicke-Royds is the present Master of 

 these hounds, the Deputy-master being Mr. J. T. 



