ISO HARE-HUNTING AND HARRIERS 



The pack was established so recently as 1900. The 

 Dart Vale comprise twenty couples of twenty-one-inch 

 pure harriers, mastered by Mr. Leigh Densham, who 

 hunts the pack himself. The kennels are at Staverton, 

 four miles from Totnes. The Dart Vale country lies 

 chiefly within the territories of the Dartmoor and 

 Mid Devon foxhounds, in which, happily for all parties, 

 wire is non-existent. The Furlong harriers have a 

 big country, twelve miles wide by twenty miles north 

 and south. Half of this is moorland, the remainder 

 grass and plough. The pack consists of ten couples 

 of nineteen-inch pure harriers, kennelled at Furlong, 

 near Chagford. These harriers have a long history, 

 having been maintained by the Bragg family, which 

 till lately owned them, for many generations. In 1878 

 Mr. G. A. Bragg, of Forder, Moreton Hampstead, 

 had the misfortune to lose his pack by dumb madness, 

 after which he got together a pack of foxhounds which 

 he hunted for ten or eleven seasons. In 1892 his 

 nephew, Mr. William Bragg, returned from India, 

 settled at Furlong, where the family have been 

 established three hundred years, and started a fresh 

 pack of harriers, naming it after the family place.* 

 The Haldon comprises a large and a good country in 

 South Devon, measuring about twenty miles by ten, 

 which runs from the coast between Torquay and 

 Paignton to the River Kenn and ranges up to within 

 three and a half miles of Exeter. Teignmouth, Dawlish, 

 Bovey, Chudleigh, and Newton are within this area, 

 which is hunted over by the South Devon and Mid 

 Devon packs of foxhounds. Formerly known as the 

 Chudleigh, the pack was moved to Kingsteignton and 

 called the Haldon. In 1897 Mr. Baron D. Webster, 

 the present Master, bought the pack and now hunts 



* Mr. Bragg has recently had to retire on account of ill- 

 health, and Mr. L. T. S. Newberry is now Master of this pack. 



