i84 HOUNDS FOR THE HILLS 



Reveller (with a cross of fox-hound blood from the Vine 

 kennel), black and white, stood about twenty-two inches 

 in height, and were pretty correct as to form, with 

 straight legs, good feet, and muscular loins. Then two 

 couple of the old blue-mottled sort, about twenty-one 

 inches high, with a good deal of bone and power. Of 

 these. Tuner was reported to be a most wonderful hound 

 for perseverance and endurance, and of such indomitable 

 courage, that one season he ran seven miles with a 

 broken leg, and swam a river at the end of the run, 

 getting up in time to have a taste of the fox. There were 

 a couple of sisters, one badger-pied, the other black and 

 white, smart-looking bitches, standing about twenty 

 inches, just the stamp for a mountainous district ; and 

 another couple nearly white, with a red ear each, of 

 about the same height, and apparently originally harriers, 

 completed the complement. 



Mr. V , who lives generally near Macchynleth, and 



has property also near M d, has been unable, from 



bad health, to hunt his own pack for several years, 

 which used to consist of fifteen couples ; but to oblige 

 the farmers he still keeps a few hounds (in all six couples) 

 for their amusement, being himself incapacitated from 

 joining the sport, with a huntsman, David Jones, now 

 officiating for his first season in that capacity, who, as 

 his name denotes, is of original Welsh extraction, and 

 totally unacquainted with the English language. 



Hounds have been kept in Mr. V 's family for 



nearly two hundred years, and even with this short 

 remnant capital sport is afforded, and they kill about 

 three out of five foxes, which, considering that earth- 

 stopping is a thing little if ever attended to, speaks 

 volumes for the prowess of this short pack. 



