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the Pendle Forest, the Holcombe, and the Aspull 

 being requisitioned. In 1896-97, when the pack 

 won the Edgeworth Cup, in keen competition with 

 neighbouring hunts, these hounds killed no less than 

 one hundred and thirty-three hares. This is a record 

 with this pack, which usually kill about a hundred hares 

 in a season. The Rochdale, like many other Northern 

 packs, have a very interesting history of their own. 

 The Rossendale, another pack with a long history 

 behind them, are kennelled at Newchurch-in-Rossen- 

 dale, where they have been established these sixty 

 or seventy years past, and hunt from thence three 

 days a week. They number eighteen couples of 

 twenty-one-inch Stud-book harriers, and hunt over 

 a wide moorland and pasture country, varied by stone 

 walls. The Vale of Lune, mastered by Colonel W. H. 

 Foster, M.P., are kennelled at Hornby. They are 

 a first-rate pack of Stud-book harriers, numbering 

 twenty couples, and great pains have been taken 

 in their breeding. In 1899, Rakish, a beautiful hound, 

 took the Champion Cup at Peterborough for bitches 

 between sixteen and nineteen inches. The Vale of 

 Lune lies in some of the most beautiful parts of Lanca- 

 shire, Westmoreland, and Yorkshire ; but there is 

 a good deal of wire, the country is cramped, and a 

 horse is needed that can jump timber, stone walls, 

 and water, 



Yorkshire has, from time immemorial, been famous 

 as a sporting county, and in Yorkshire, naturally, 

 one finds harriers well represented. Here are the 

 Colne Valley, the Craven, Glaisdale, Hallam and 

 Eccleshall, Holmfirth, Penistone, Rockwood, Sheffield, 

 Stannington, and Stockton — the last-named a foot- 

 pack. The Colne Valley — ten couples of pure harriers 

 — hunt pasture and moorland in about equal parts. 



