Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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very successfully by Mr. Courtney Tracey,
with about fifteen couples of pure and
crossed hounds. The Northern Counties
Hunt was established as recently as 1903,
and up to the present the hounds have been
drafts from the Culmstock, Hawkstone,
Dumfriesshire, Mr. Thomas Robsons, and
the Morpeth. They hunt the rivers over a
very wide country, as they find their sport
on the Tweed and the Tyne in Northumber-
land and go down to the Swale at Middle-
ham, Yorkshire. Other packs have hunted
these rivers in the past, such as those be-
longing to the well-known Mr. John Gallon,
Major Browne—the great buyer of the Pol-
timore Foxhounds—and Mr. T. L. Wilkin-
son ; but they were not called the Northern
Counties. They are now under the Master-
ship of F. P. Barnett, Esq., of Whalton,
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Another pack to hunt other Yorkshire
waters, mostly in the West Riding districts,
is the Wharfdale, with kennels at Adding-
ton. The present hunt was only estab-
lished in 1905, but there had been a Wharf-
dale Otter Hunt Club, who invited certain

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158 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG.

hunts to their rivers. Now the whole
country is taken up, and that also which
was formerly hunted by the famous Kendal
Otterhounds. The pack at present com-
prises twenty couples. Mr. W. Thompson
is the Master, and they hunt three days a
week.
The two packs that appear to be most
staunchly attached to the pure Otterhound
are the Dumfriesshire and the East of
Scotland. The former of these admits
of nothing but sixteen couples of pure-
bred Otterhounds. The hunt was estab-
lished in 1889, but not with such hounds
as are kennelled now by J. B. Bell Irvine,
Esq., of Bankside, Lockerbie. They hunt
all the rivers in the South of Scotland as
far as those of Ayrshire, and by all accounts
show excellent sport. It is evident that
the Dumfriesshire, as hunted now by the
very well-known sportsman, Mr. Wilson
Davidson, are the typical Otterhounds
shown between 1870 and 1880, by Mr.
J. C. Carrick, the Hon. Geoffrey Hill, Mr.
W. Tattersall, Mr. C. S. Coulson, and Mr.
Forster. Mr. J. C. Carrick had three very
good hounds in the 'seventies, called
Booser, Stanley, and the bitch Charmer.

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