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took the Hursley country, and hunted it for 

 two seasons. Henry Nason, from the Mon- 

 mouth, and Will Fisher were his whippers-in. 

 Mr. Pearse's Mr. Robert Pearse of South Warn- 

 hamers. borough, who had purchased Mr. 

 Wall's harriers, now hunted the country 

 between Odiham and Alton, and for the two 

 seasons he hunted them had excellent sport. 

 His brother, Mr. William Pearse, assisted him 

 in the field. 



Mr. Chaplin's Mr. Chaplin of Ewhurst, who 

 was for some years M.P. for Salis- 

 bury, kept a nice pack of harriers from 1850 

 to the time of his death in 1859. He com- 

 menced with very small highly-bred hounds 

 from Mr. Corbett's in Shropshire. He found, 

 however, that the Hampshire hills and flints 

 proved too much for them, and he changed 

 their size, substituting drafts from Mr. Flower 

 of Xetton, from Mr. Corbett (who had also 

 changed his pack), and also from some dwarf 

 fox-hounds from Charles Papie of the Pytch- 

 ley, in 1854. The pack was then perfect. Will 

 Cox, on seeing them, said, "Very neat indeed. 

 I wouldn't be a cub in a hollow coppice 

 afore r em." They hunted all the country from 

 Basingstoke to Whitchurch, and over the 

 Cannon Heath training ground to Highclere. 

 Mr. Horace Chaplin hunted them for one 



