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or every other day, taking them out three or four miles 

 so as to give them a walk of six or eight. If young dogs 

 are troublesome and attempt to range in the fields 

 adjacent to the roads, let them be coupled with some 

 steady dogs. If the weather should be very hot, the dogs 

 should be taken out early in the morning, and be 

 careful they have plenty of water. I shall finish this 

 treatise on the general management of sporting dogs, 

 by the subjoined directions given by Langly in an old 

 work called " The Mayster of the Cfame." " I wyll 

 hym learne that onyce in the day he voj'de the kennel 

 and make it all clene, and remove her strawe and put 

 agayn fresh strawe, a great dele and right thicke, and 

 ther as he lieth it the hounds shuld lye ; and the place 

 where they lye shuld be made of tree a foot high fro 

 the ground, and then the strawe shuld be lied upon, 

 because that the moystness of the erthe shuld not make 

 hym morfound nor engende other sickness, bi the which 

 their myght be the wors for hunting, or ellis her litter 

 or couche is unclene kept, or ellis the strawe is not 

 removed and her water fresh, and shortly the hound is 

 unclene, I hold, and evil kept or long waterles, havyn 

 comonly this murmewe." 



