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During this run Squire Frith rode his well-known 

 horse, Black Jack, a very notable fencer in that country 

 of stone walls, and always well up with hounds. 



I have made some reference to " Parson " Fronde's 

 pack of old English harriers, from which is descended 

 in great part the present pack of Sir John Heathcoat 

 Amory. In the year 1825 Mr. Froude and his pack 

 while trailing for a hare, came on a wild red deer, a 

 hind which had wandered from Exmoor Forest. With 

 this hind the pack had an extraordinary run of four 

 hours ; with the exception of a check of five minutes 

 hounds were pushing their quarry hard the whole 

 time. They ran through ten parishes, and although 

 the deer sought to baffle them by taking soil on two 

 occasions, they pressed her from scent to view, and 

 finally killed her near Tiverton. It was recorded at 

 the time that although these harriers had to undergo 

 a desperately severe chase over a strong country 

 every hound was up at the death, and all returned to 

 kennel without being overdone. This must evidently 

 have been a real good pack of hounds. They are 

 stated to have been chiefly bred from their own kennel 

 for a score of years previously, were grey and white in 

 colour, twenty-one inches in height, possessing plenty 

 of bone, and standing on a good deal of ground. In 

 the same year (1825) the Dorset Vale harriers killed 

 two foxes in one day after runs of an hour and forty- 

 five minutes and an hour and thirty-three minutes 

 respectively. These harriers apparently hunted hare 

 and fox indiscriminately and were as good upon one 

 as the other. 



In the winter of 1820 a stag was turned out at 



ground. In the version I give, printed in the Sporting 

 Magazine so far back as 1826, it states distinctly that the 

 quarry was killed. Possibly he was dug out and killed. 



