ii8 HARE-HUNTING 



until lately hunted by Mr. Robert Fellowes, 

 of Shotesman, — little beauties, all quality 

 and activity, not too fast and flighty to hunt a 

 cold line or a doubling hare, and yet able to 

 drive along when the opportunity arrived, 

 and requiring a good hunter under one when 

 they meant going. It may be replied that 

 in adopting the dwarf fox - hound type, 

 present Masters are reverting to a still older 

 standard. I readily admit it. Indeed, I 

 was recently looking at a print of Mr. 

 Astley's harriers in 1810, in which they are 

 something like "dwarf fox-hounds," but 

 they are "dwarf," and, behold, a terrier 

 accompanies the pack, telling the tale that they 

 hunted the fox as well as the hare. If the 

 old type of hound had answered its purpose, 

 those generations which were hare-hunters 



