THE HARRIER AND THE BEAGLE. HBO

pursuit known in the annals of hunting. On the 8th of June
in that year, a fox and hound were seen near Dunkeld in
Perthshire, on the high road, proceeding at a slow trotting
pace. The dog was about fifty yards behind the fox, and
each was so fatigued as not to gain on the other. A coun-
tryman very easily caught the fox, and both it and the dog
were taken to a gentleman’s house in the neighbourhood,
where the fox died. It was afterwards ascertained that the
hound belonged to the Duke of Gordon, and that the fox
was started on the morning of the 4th of June, on the top
of those hills called Monaliadh, which separate Badenoch
from Fort Augustus. From this it appeared that the chase
fasted four days, and that the distance traversed from the
place where the fox was unkennelled to the spot where
it was caught, without making. any allowances for doubles,
crosses, etc. and as the crow flies, exceeded seventy
miles.”
The Harrier. “The Harrier,” says Colonel Smith, “so called
from being usually applied to hare hunting is smaller than
the fox-hound, not exceeding eighteen inches at the shoulder.
It is entirely an artificial breed and is often confounded with
the beagle.”
The Beagle. The Beagle is called by Mr. Jesse, “a Fox-
hound in miniature,” and he adds nothing can well be more
perfect than the shape of these small dogs. “In Queen Eli-
zabeth’s reign,” says Colonel Smith, “the fanciers bred a race
so small, that a complete cry of them could be carried out
to the field in a pair of panniers. That princess had little
singing beagles which could be placed in a man’s glove! At
present they are about twelve or fourteen inches at the
shoulders, stout and compact in make, with long ears, and
either marked with a bright streak or spot of white about
the neck on a dark brown coat, or white with spots like a
harrier, of black and red. They are slow but persevering.
and are sufficiently sure of killing their game.”

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