172 HARE-HUNTING AND HARRIERS 



Yet the good hound, with the pluck and energy of his 

 race — for he is a good-bred one — hies to the summons 

 of the horn on the next hunting-day, as eager and as 

 keen as ever. 



SCOTLAND 



In Scotland, for some reason or other, hare-hunting 

 has never obtained much foothold. At the present 

 time no more than three packs of harriers are in 

 existence north of the Tweed. Of these, the Aberdeen- 

 shire, mastered by Mr. G. Pirie, are kennelled at 

 Stoneywood House, Bucksburn. Eighteen couples 

 of twenty-inch Stud-book harriers compose the pack, 

 which hunts two days a week over a nice country, 

 consisting chiefly of pasture with some moorland and 

 plough. The Cambo harriers, owned and mastered 

 by Sir T. Erskine, of Cambo, Kingsbarn, Fife, and 

 hunted by Mr. T. H. Erskine, number twenty couples 

 of nineteen-inch Stud-book harriers, and hunt over 

 arable country in the eastern portion of Fife. Wire 

 is far too prevalent in all this locality. The Marquis 

 of Linlithgow (until lately known as the Earl of Hope- 

 toun) has maintained a pack of harriers in Linlithgow- 

 shire for seventeen years. Lord Linlithgow is an 

 enthusiast in hound breeding, and, in addition to a 

 good pack of harriers, supports a kennel of bloodhounds, 

 and a little pack of ten-inch pocket-beagles, which 

 hunt rabbit. The harriers, kennelled at Hopetoun 

 House, consist of twenty-live couples of twenty-one- 

 inch Stud-book harriers, which hunt three days a 

 week. They are practically dwarf foxhounds, showing 

 Belvoir colouring, and are very handsome. Their 

 country consists of mingled pasture, plough, and wood- 

 land, a good deal of it, except upon Lord Linlithgow's 

 own property, being troubled by wire, which is by no 

 means well marked. Mr. Adam Cross hunts the pack. 



