Hen-harriers fly low over heaths or fields of corn, and beat the ground regularly like a pointer or setting-dog.
Hen-harriers breed on the ground, and seem never to settle on trees.
Let now the harriers come, and instantly the hounds' second sense of smell picks up the invisible sign of the hare that has crossed it in the night or early dawn, and runs it as swiftly as if he were lifting a clue of thread.
There remain two sports which are still in their infancy in the country and deserve serious development--the keeping of harriers and angling.
In any case, if the master of harriers breeds carefully he ought in a few years to get together a thoroughly acclimatised pack.
I say harriers advisedly, for though it would be better to stick to drafts from foxhound packs because of the greater strength and hardiness of the hounds, yet the sport can never fairly be dignified by the name of fox-hunting.
Can the harriers be hunting in such a snowfall as this, and is poor pussy in view before the whole murderous pack, opening in full cry on her haunches?
Artagnan does not get any older," said the captain of the harriers to his colleague the falconer: "with ten years more than either of us, he has the seat of a young man on horseback.
The captain of the harriershad prudently withdrawn.
The captain of the harriers smiled, no doubt with a view of making it up with the musketeer.
These were the captain of the king's harriers and the governor of the falcons, personages greatly respected in the time of Louis XIII.
After having undergone this sharp rebuke, the captain of the harriers hung his head, and allowed the falconer to get two steps in advance of him nearer to D'Artagnan.
Unless very carefully trained, Harriers will hunt rabbits, and then they are with difficulty broken of this vice.
The Southern Hound, another very old breed, showing many characteristics of the Bloodhound, is difficult to find now in his pure state, although many old packs of Harriers have descended chiefly from Southern Hounds.
Harriers vary in their height according to the nature of the country they have to work in.
That good sport is still to be had with Harriers we do not for a moment dispute, but it is not general.
Harriers= Although there are packs of Harriers in various parts of the country, they are of a very limited number, hare-hunting with Hounds being a very inferior sport to that of fox-hunting.
Yet harriers were already on their way to the meet, and it was that very ground where he sat that was to be hunted.
Whipper-in of the Templeton Harriers was rapid promotion for a new boy on his first day.
Raggles departed, not quite sure whether Dick had not had too much "swipes" for dinner, or whether his run after the Harriers yesterday had not been too much for his wits.
Their run with the Harriers had been no trifle: and far more important was the general attention it had drawn to themselves, and to their efforts to get into, the select company.
The sentence about the Football Club and the Harriers was a sudden inspiration.
The Harriers smiled, and for a minute or two the pack swung in an even line across the field.
Were not these downs the hunting-ground over which the Templeton Harriers coursed in chase of the Templeton hares?
The keeper of the harriers smiled, no doubt with a view of making it up with the musketeer.
The keeper of the harriers had prudently withdrawn.
Artagnan does not get any older," said the keeper of the harriers to his colleague the falconer; "with ten years more to carry than either of us, he has the seat of a young man on horseback.
After having undergone this sharp rebuke, the keeper of the harriers hung his head, and allowed the falconer to get two steps in advance of him nearer to D'Artagnan.
These were the keeper of the king's harriers and the master of the falcons, personages greatly respected in the time of Louis XIII.
The Harriersor Harrows are so called from their harrying propensities.
The Harriers are bold predatory voracious birds, having somewhat of the appearance and movements of the Hawks.
Harriers are so numerous in the open marisma that four or five may often be seen at once, slowly drifting about over the waste, and marvellous is the speed with which they detect a disabled fowl.
Amidst the feathered population, apparently unnoticing and unnoticed by all, the Marsh-Harriers ceaselessly wheel and drift.
Over the smoking brakes swept buzzards and marsh-harriers which, forgetting their fears in opportunity, pounced boldly on the homeless and helpless.
How often have I told you that, although I keep harriers and not fox-hounds, you are never to touch a fox.
A hare, being hard run by a pack ofharriers in the west of England, and being nearly exhausted, happened to come upon another hare in her form.
The harriers shortly afterwards came in sight, followed Kitty, and drove her from the garden.
The harriers were soon at the spot, but no hare was to be found.
I have four harriers which are considered the swiftest in the county, and a pack of hounds which are unequalled for twenty leagues around.
I am inclined to believe that even a pack of well-trained harriers would have been unable to follow the doe-hares I have referred to, unless the scent lay unusually well on the surface of the marsh.
Luckily for Puss, the harriers never visited her neighbourhood, and only on special occasions was coursing permitted on the estate.
We have more than once met with such accidents on the Devonshire moors, and have known well-bred harriers run clear away from the huntsmen, after an on-lying fox, over an unrideable country.
When wild deer became scarce, the attention of sportsmen was probably turned to the sporting qualities of the fox by the accident of harriers getting upon the scent of some wanderer in the clicketing season, and being led a straight long run.
Prince Albert's harriers are in the strictest sense of the term a private pack, kept by his Royal Highness for his own amusement, under the management of Colonel Hood.
Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt kept harriersat his Manor House of Aylsby, at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds, before he turned them into fox-hounds.
The greater number of what are called harriers now-a-days are dwarf fox-hounds, or partake largely of fox-hound blood.
However, we had a few runs with a scratch pack of harriersafter stout moorland hares.
The harriersrequired attention in the summer, and the eye of the Master was never long astray.
The winter at Blenheim, with its diversions of the Harriers and the Woodstock Railway, seems to have refreshed Lord Randolph's mind and added to his stores of fancy.
The reputation, the popularity, and the fields of the Blenheim Harriers grew steadily.
Whenever the responsibilities of the harriers permitted and a horse was fresh and fit, he hunted besides with the Heythrop, the Bicester and other neighbouring packs.
He forthwith proceeded to put away his 'toys,' as he called them; and the Blenheim Harriers were given up without delay.
Now that theharriers are gone,' he said, 'the future seems rather a blank.
In the winter months I made occasional attempts to follow the pack of harriers which was kept up for our benefit--which at all events amused the warders and country-siders a good deal.
The lunatic harriers would make a chapter by themselves; but I have done with them.
We followed the harriers and ate sandwiches together, and speculated why we had been singled out to be crushed by this tower of Siloam.
On one occasion, sitting on the South Downs, watching the movements of a pack of harriers in the distance, I saw “puss” gradually approaching me.
There is one kind of foe which the hare finds more difficult to shake off, or elude, than a pack of harriers or beagles.
The harriers ran wherever they pleased, and the astonished farm mules wouldn't run at all.
Most of my cattle are out with the harriers to-day.
The harriers meet there at eleven, and this will be the very thing to hide the leathers, and tops, and the green cutaway.
Harriers will run a fox in so different a style from the pursuit of a hare, that they will not readily, and often will not at all, return to their proper work.
Almost every country squire used in former days to keep his little pack of harriers or beagles.
He says that the sportsman should never have more than 20 couple in the field, because it would he exceedingly difficult to get a greater number to run together, and a pack of harriers cannot be complete if they do not.
This seems to be the least common of the Harriers in the Channel Islands, though it does occur occasionally, and perhaps more frequently than is generally supposed.
All the Harriers seem to have a special liking for eggs.
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