158 HARE-HUNTING AND HARRIERS 



is run along the tops of the banks. The pack consists 

 of twenty-three couples of eighteen and a half-inch 

 Stud-book harriers, which show only a remote cross 

 of the foxhound. 



Mrs. Pryse-Rice, of Llwyn-y-brain, Llandovery, 

 who owns a pack of harriers in South Wales, is another 

 among the very few ladies in the kingdom, who not 

 only master but hunt their own hounds. Her country 

 lies in Carmarthenshire and Brecknockshire, and 

 consists of moor, pasture, and woodland, with a little 

 arable land. On the hills a good deal of wire is to be 

 found, but not much of it is barbed. Mrs. Pryse-Rice's 

 pack was established in 1894, when her husband gave 

 up fox-hunting. It consists of twenty couples of 

 twenty-inch Stud-book harriers, which hunt hare and 

 fox twice a week. This is a very smart pack, and 

 Mrs. Pryse-Rice has been frequently successful with 

 her hounds at Peterborough. Sport is good, the pack 

 is everywhere welcome, and although wire exists the 

 farmers will usually take it down when asked to do so. 



Wales is a country of private packs, and the Roath 

 Court is yet another of those owned and maintained 

 entirely by the Master. These hounds hunt in 

 Glamorganshire, within the country hunted by Lord 

 Tredegar's and the Glamorgan foxhounds. Mr. 

 Charles Williams, of Roath Court, Cardiff, the Master, 

 established the pack as far back as 1862, and has 

 maintained them ever since. His hounds number 

 eighteen couples of twenty-inch cross-bred harriers, 

 which take the field two days a week. 



IRELAND 



In the Sister Island sport of every kind is pursued 

 even more enthusiastically than in this country, and 



