THE HARRIER. 



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instruction, if we may venture so to express this particular force 

 of example. 



" In the kennels of packs of fox-hounds, the following bar- 

 barous custom of the dogs towards one another has been 

 sometimes* observed. If a hound gets down of his own accord 

 from the bench on which he was lying, no notice of it is 

 taken by the others : but if a hapless hound falls off the 

 bench from awkwardness, his companions fly at him, and bite 

 him to death." * 



THE HARRIER. (Canis Leverarius;) 



and 

 THE BEAGLE. (C. Leverarius minor.) 



The harrier derives its name from its use, that of hunting the 

 hare. It is usually from sixteen to eighteen inches in height. 



" Harriers and fox-hounds, even when taken out for the first 

 time, have a very different mode of hunting ; the fox-hound will 

 press forward, and cast wide j the harrier will keep to, or, as the 

 sportsmen say, stick to the scent, and cast back."f 



* Menageries,\6l i. (1829), p. 53. 



t Sebright's Observations upon the Instinct of Animals (1836), p. 16. 



