212 A KENNEL EOR HARRIERS. 



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. 



As few men would purchase a horse without 

 having a stable to put him into, so must a kennel 

 of some sort be prepared to receive a pack of 

 harriers. I have seen very extraordinary places 

 appropriated to this purpose ; the end of an old 

 barn or stable, a pig-sty, or ruinous old cottage 

 no longer tenantable by human beings, by aid of 

 a few props to the main beams, converted into a 

 kennel. Passing by such makeshifts, I will take 

 it for granted that the person who seriously asks 

 me for information respecting the duties of a 

 huntsman to a pack of harriers would make suit- 



