Harriers 8 3 



for budding sportsmen, nothing can be better 

 than to follow (not too closely, hien entendu !) 

 a pack of harriers. With regard to the former, 

 in my humble opinion, this plan is by far 

 the best one to inoculate your beginner with 

 a love for hunting. Harriers are slow enough 

 to enable a horse to look about him, and, if 

 he is sensible, he will soon begin to take an 

 interest in the sport. Again, he can " have " 

 his fences as slowly as he likes, and even if 

 he gets down, there is usually plenty of time 

 to pick himself up again and catch hounds 

 before they have got very far. 



To those men who love hunting for hunt- 

 ing's — as distinguished from riding's — sake, 

 few things can be prettier than to watch 

 the work of these patient, clever, though 

 quarrelsome, little hounds. Of all the harrier 

 packs it has been my good fortune to follow, 

 I always thought the Shotesham, in Norfolk, 

 hunted by Mr. Fellowes, was the best. Once 

 a tremendously " hard " man in the Shires, 

 Mr. Fellowes afterwards made the perfection of 

 a harrier huntsman. It was whilst following 



