HARRIERS 



*' Uncouple at the timorous flying hare," 

 says Shakespeare, and in no parts of these 

 Islands has the injunction been more largely 

 obeyed than in the West country, where the 

 sport is, to-day, more popular than ever. 

 But harriers are to be found pretty well 

 distributed all over the country now, and 

 the chase of the hare is by no means a thing 

 to be looked down upon. It is often said 

 that " harriers should not be allowed to hunt 

 fox," and I think to that saying might be 

 added, " fox- and stag-hunters should not be 

 allowed to hunt hare," because when they 

 do so comparisons, which, as we know, are 

 " odious," will inevitably be made, and always 

 to the disadvantage of the slower, if more 

 scientific, sport. 



As a school, no less for young horses than 



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