CONTENTS. IX 



the Fox-hound. — The Battue System. — The Day's Work 

 of a Setter and Fox -hound compared. — Distinctive 

 Features of the Rough and Smooth Haired Hound. — The 

 Kennels at Belvoir and Cottesmere thirty years ago. — 

 Lord Fitzwilliam's Pack . . . page 198 



CHAPTER XV. 



How to construct a Kennel for Harriers. — Eight Couples 

 form a sufficient Pack. — A brief Disquisition on Reason 

 and Instinct. — Distinctive Features of Harriers and Fox- 

 hounds, — Fox-hounds unsuited to hunt Hares. — Objections 

 to the old Breed of Harriers . . . 212 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Hare-hunting continued. — Requisites for the Kennel. — Good 

 Food, cheap Food. — Difficulty of forming a Pack of Har- 

 riers from Drafts. — A veracious Account of hovjr Squire 

 Bragg purchased a Pack of dead Harriers for Five Hun- 

 dred Pounds. — How to form a Pack when you cannot buy 

 one. — A Story about the ruling Passion, which must be 

 continued in the next Chapter . . . 224 



CHAPTER XVII. 



A Caudle Lecture by a lot of Curs. — The first and last of an 

 Angola Cat. — *' Ware cur Dog." — Over the Downs to Char- 

 bury. — How a Goat lost its Tail, and a Squire got a Duck- 

 ing. — A short Moral to a long Story. — Management of 

 Harriers in the Field. — Their two greatest Faults. — Allure- 

 ments of Hare-hunting .... 237 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Fox-hunting in North Wales. — Two distinct varieties of Par- 

 tridges to be found there. — Parvenu Encroachments on the 

 old Hunting-grounds. — Woodcocks and Grouse. — Climate 



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