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duce to the beauty of the specimen. Some of the packs 

 of Welsh Harriers, which for scenting and working 

 qualities, are very hard to beat, are so versatile, that it 

 is said they will " hunt anything with a hairy skin," 

 unless they are broken from it when young, and I have 

 heard of a pack, in the Principality, which regularly 

 hunts hares, until Fox hunting begins, when the 

 " Green Coats " are exchanged for " Pink," and they 

 take up the pursuit of Reynard, as to the manner born ! 

 The height of the Harrier is a matter of taste. " Stone- 

 henge " puts it at under twenty inches ; probably the 

 average is about eighteen inches. A well-known 

 sportsman in Dorsetshire, in 1871, speaks of the pack 

 belonging to the late Mr. T. B. Evans, of Chettle, 

 near Blandford, which he considered the best he had 

 ever seen, and consisted of bitches fifteen and a half 

 inches, combining the blood of the packs of Messrs. 

 Wicksted, Hurrell, Boughley. and Sir Vincent Corbet. 

 He goes on to say, " The education of this pack is mar- 

 vellous; rabbits are frequently left to feed in the ken- 

 nel, and occasionally, I am told, coupled to any repro- 

 bates of the pack, to shame them from molesting them ! 

 I have hunted with these hounds, and have had the 

 very great pleasure of seeing them handled by that 

 supreme master of his art. I have seen these hounds 

 pass by rabbits, as Pointers would go through a poultry 

 yard. I have watched them as they spread, like a fan, 

 when they were picking out a cold scent, the worthy 

 master sitting quietly on his cob, and when they recov- 

 ered it, seen them stream away, with voices " like a Peal 

 of Bells," and as close together as a flock of pigeons ! 



