152 HARE-HUNTING AND HARRIERS 



had them for many years — 1863-1895 — and in his time 

 they were of that slate-grey and hare colouring, which 

 I have already mentioned elsewhere. The pack now 

 consists of sixteen and a half couples of twenty-inch 

 pure harriers, which hunt two days a week over a fine 

 grass country round Bradninch, where the kennels 

 are situate. The East Devon foxhounds hunt over 

 the portion of the county lying east of the river Culme. 

 Mr. John Rowell, of Bradninch, is Master and huntsman. 

 The South Molton — twelve couples of nineteen-inch 

 pure harriers, kennelled at South Molton — hunt over 

 a wild moorland country in North Devon and Somerset, 

 lying within the limits of the Exmoor and West Somer- 

 set foxhounds. The South Pool harriers (Mr. H, F. 

 Brunskill's) number twenty-four couples of nineteen- 

 inch harriers, which, with kennels at Buckland-Tout- 

 Saints, hunt three days a week a broken and varied 

 country within a radius of ten or twelve miles from 

 Kingsbridge. This country consists of mingled grass 

 and plough with some woodland. It is hilly, with 

 small enclosures, and is happily untroubled by wire. 

 No foxhounds hunt over the South Pool territory. 

 Mr. Sperling's, otherwise known as the Lamerton, 

 (eighteen couples of eighteen-inch pure harriers,) 

 kennelled at Lamerton, near Tavistock, hunt two days 

 a week over a wide and strong country, fortified by 

 big banks and walls, lying in West Devon and Corn- 

 wall, in the territory hunted over by the Lamerton 

 foxhounds. This country is mainly pasture and moor- 

 land, and wire is not obtrusive. 



In Cornwall, to complete the tour of England proper, 

 are to be found three packs of harriers, hunting over 

 much of the wild, solitary moorland country of that 

 remote and beautiful extremity of this island. The 

 Fowey, with kennels at Par Moor, possess a very 



