Braches and Baches. 
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Was never holla’d to, nor cheer’d with horn, 
In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly, 
Judge when you hear. 5 ” 
(.Midsummer Night’s Dream, iv. 1, 124.) 
Topsell writes (p. 149):— 
“ There are in England and Scotland two kinds of hunting dogs, 
and no where else in the world. The first kind they call in Scotland 
ane rache, and this is a foot-smelling creature, both of wilde beasts, 
birds, and fishes also which lie hid among the rockes; the female 
hereof in England is called a brache. The second kind is called in 
Scotland a sluth-hound, being a little greater than a hunting hound, 
and in colour for the most part browne or sandy-spotted.” 
In the Mirror for Magistrates, vol. ii. p. 74, ed. Hasle- 
wood, 1815, we read:— 
“ For as the dogges pursue the seely doe. 
The brache behinde, the houndes on every side, 
So traste they mee among the mountaynes wide.” 
When told to keep silence and listen to Lady 
Mortimer's Welsh song, Hotspur uncivilly replies, “I had 
rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish ” (1 Henry IV., 
hi. 1,240). 
Buckhounds and harriers were frequently called 
“ running-hounds.” The Harrier, a very 
different animal from the small foxhound 
known by that name at the present day, is described by 
Caius as having “ long, large, and bagging lippes, hanging 
eares, reachyng downe both sydes of their chappes.” 
The word “ heirers,” or harriers, is as old as the time 
of Henry Y. Though used for hunting the hart as well 
as the hare, harriers were distinct from “ herte-hounds,” 
or “ greyhoundes.” The fondness of James I. for hunting 
may be gathered from the many allusions in the State 
Papers of his reign to the various requirements for that 
sport. 
