134 HARE-HUNTING AND HARRIERS 



Norfolk supports three packs of harriers, of which 

 the Downham hunt a light plough country in the 

 neighbourhood of Downham Market. Fifteen couples 

 of twenty-inch pure harriers, entered in the harrier 

 Stud-book, compose the pack. They hunt two days 

 a week. The Dunston, kennelled near Norwich, and 

 owned and mastered by Mr. Geoffrey Buxton, of 

 Dunston Hall, hunt over a country, chiefly composed 

 of plough, in South Norfolk. They are undisturbed 

 by foxhounds and have very little wire. The pack 

 consists of twenty-eight couples of nineteen- to twenty- 

 inch Stud-book harriers. The Melton Constable were 

 formerly owned by Lord Hastings, who gave them up 

 a season or two back. They are now mastered by 

 Mr. H. Gibson, who hunts two days a week from 

 Melton Constable, in North Norfolk. The pack 

 consists of twenty couples of twenty-inch Stud-book 

 harriers. 



Suffolk puts into the field three packs, the Hamilton, 

 the Henham, and the East Suffolk. Of these the 

 Hamilton, owned for many years by the late Duke of 

 Hamilton, are now mastered by Mr. Carnaby Forster, 

 with Mr. Sidney Heywood as Field Master and hunts- 

 man. They hunt from their old kennels at Easton, 

 in the eastern part of the county, and number twenty 

 couples of twenty- to twenty-one-inch pure harriers, 

 entered in the Stud-book. The Henham, mastered 

 and hunted since 1888 by the Earl of Stradbroke, hunt 

 over a wide area in Suffolk and Norfolk, untouched by 

 foxhounds. This country is chiefly plough, with about 

 one-fourth pasture. The kennels are at Henham Hall, 

 near Southwold . The pack number twenty- three couples 

 of nineteen-inch pure harriers (Stud-book), which hunt 

 two days a week. The East Suffolk are a new pack, 

 enrolled this season, with kennels at Melton, near 



