CHAPTER VIII 



A GLANCE AT ENGLISH PACKS (continued) 

 THE SOUTH AND WEST OF ENGLAND 



Gloucestershire — Boddington harriers — A noted pack 

 ■ — The Longford — The Home Counties — Aldenham 

 harriers — Mr. Quare's — Kent and its ten packs — 

 Surrey — Sussex — The Bexhill and Hailsham : two 

 packs of old-fashioned harriers — Brighton and Brook- 

 side packs — Lady Gififord's harriers — Another lady 

 huntsman — Hants — The Isle of Wight — Dorset devoid 

 of harriers — WUts — Somerset packs — The Cotley — 

 Mr. Eames on " pure harriers " — Devon and its fifteen 

 packs 



Gloucester furnishes one of the best packs in 

 the kingdom, the Boddington Harriers, maintained 

 by Mr. J. S. Gibbons at Boddington Manor, near 

 Cheltenham. Mr. Gibbons has long been a Master 

 of harriers, having hunted a pack in Worcestershire 

 before he established the present pack in 1883. No 

 one has taken more interest in the breeding of harriers 

 than Mr. Gibbons, and the fact that his hounds have 

 been prize-takers at Peterborough attests the excellence 

 of his kennel. He maintains twenty couples of Stud- 

 book harriers, which now reach twenty inches. The 

 Boddington is a good country, lying in the Vale of 

 Severn, partly in Gloucestershire, partly in Worcester- 

 shire ; it runs from Tewkesbury and Gloucester as 

 far as the Cotswolds and Brendon Hill. The Vale 



