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the Ross, whose history dates back at least as far 

 as 1820. Fifteen couples of twenty-inch mixed 

 hounds compose the pack, which is kennelled at 

 Goodrich, near Kerne Bridge, on the Great Western 

 Railway, Most of the Ross country consists of light 

 plough. 



Worcestershire is well represented by the Bentley 

 Harriers, owned by Mrs. Cheape — known throughout 

 the country-side as " The Squire " — of Bentley Manor, 

 near Redditch. This lady is both Master and hunts- 

 man of her pack, which is maintained entirely at her 

 own expense, no subscription being taken or " capping" 

 practised. The pack, established in 1892, consists of 

 twenty-two and a half couples of nineteen-inch pure 

 harriers, which are entered in the Harrier and Beagle 

 Stud-book ; it hunts five days a fortnight over a wide 

 country in Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Gloucester- 

 shire, and, occasionally, in the Old Berkshire country, 

 by invitation. 



Warwickshire, the home of fox-hunting, save for 

 the incursions of the Bentley pack, is guiltless of hare- 

 hunting. In Leicestershire was found till this year the 

 Foremark, with kennels at Foremark Hall. This was 

 a strong pack, hunting a nice country, part plough, 

 part pasture, in Leicestershire and Derbyshire. It 

 ought to be resuscitated. 



Northamptonshire, considering that it is so great 

 a stronghold of fox-hunting, is fairly well represented. 

 The Marquis of Exeter maintains at Burghley House, 

 Stamford, a nice pack of nineteen couples of Stud-book 

 harriers (eighteen- and nineteen-inch), hunting two 

 days a week in this shire as well as in Rutland, and a 

 piece of Lincolnshire. In the very heart of the Pytchley 

 and Grafton countries, famous in the fox-hunting world 

 for so many generations, we find Mr. Henry Hawkins 



