26o HARE-HUNTING AND HARRIERS 



of the Law from this Society towards their expenses and 

 trouble in going to a Magistrate. 



5th. If at the end of this season any money shall remain 

 in the hands of the Dog-Lad, it shall be paid and delivered 

 to his successor in office who shall be chosen by a majority 

 of the subscribers ; and if the sum subscribed shall happen 

 to be deficient such Deficiency to be made up by the sub- 

 scribers, in proportion to the sums they shall at first have 

 subscribed towards the Hunt. 



Witness our Hands John Smith 



Sam. Brandwood 

 John Rogstron 

 RoBT. Holt Brown 

 Benj. Buckley 

 John Booth 

 J AS. Howarth. 



This quaint document — a thoroughly Enghsh pro- 

 duction, grave, sohd, and law-abiding — proves amply 

 that even the supporters of trencher-fed packs took 

 their sport quite as seriously as their modern suc- 

 cessors, and allied themselves frequently by hard and 

 fast rules, which regulated the conduct of their hunt- 

 ing even to minute particulars. 



In hunting foot-harriers, it is better to keep the 

 pack as near as possible to a standard of eighteen or 

 nineteen inches. Eighteen inches is, to my mind, the 

 ideal height for foot-harriers. It is, however, a diffi- 

 cult matter to keep down the standard to that desi- 

 deratum ; harriers, whether bred from foxhound or 

 Southern hound blood, are inclined to produce hounds 

 just a little bigger than is often wished for. The 

 pack with which I hunt are nineteen-inch harriers, 

 which, for foot-hunting, is the maximum that ought to 

 be permitted. In fact, even for hunting hare on 

 horseback, I would sooner hunt with nineteen-inch 

 harriers than those of any other standard. 



Hunting on foot is not only a most wholesome, but 



