126 HARE-HUNTING AND HARRIERS 



The Craven, an old pack whose records reach back 

 far into the eighteenth century, hunt a wide district 

 in north-west Yorkshire, in a country untouched 

 by foxhounds. They are twenty-one-inch Stud-book 

 harriers, chiefly of foxhound blood, number twenty- 

 seven couples, and hunt three days a week. Mr. 

 Amcotts Wilson is Master. The Glaisdale, hunting 

 in the Cleveland country (foxhound), number ten 

 couples and go out two days a week. They are, as 

 I have previously stated, a trencher-fed pack, some- 

 what of a curiosity in these days. The Glaisdale, 

 by the way, are a harrier and beagle cross, and run 

 from seventeen to nineteen inches. The Hallam 

 and Eccleshall are a Sheffield pack. The Holmfirth 

 are another trencher-fed pack — twelve couples of 

 pure harriers — established so far back as 1800, hunting 

 near Huddersfield. The Penistone and their singularly 

 ancient history I have already touched upon. The 

 present pack consists of ten couples of pure harriers, 

 or " Old English hounds," standing from twenty-two 

 to twenty-four inches. They hunt low-ground, grass 

 country until December 10, after which they betake 

 themselves to the grouse moors west of Penistone, 

 where they enjoy first-rate sport. The Rockwood, 

 nineteen couples of twenty-one-inch harriers and 

 foxhounds, find their sport in the West Riding, partly 

 within the borders of the Badsworth Hunt ; while 

 two other Sheffield packs — the Sheffield and the 

 Stannington — are quartered within or near the town 

 of Cutlery. The Stockton, a foot-pack, numbering 

 thirteen couples of seventeen and a half-inch Stud- 

 book harriers, hunt a rough country, parts of it cold 

 clay, near Stockton-on-Tees. This pack started with 

 beagles and was transformed into harriers in 1892. 

 Coming down to Derbyshire, one is somewhat 



