hunting. Don't wash Hounds, but, if they can't be 

 kept clean without it, it must be done. Keeping 

 tired Hounds in the cold waiting for their turn to be 

 washed is certainly bad for them. 



They ought to be fed and shut up as soon as 

 possible. After being shut up for some hours, turn 

 them off the benches, and add some fresh straw. Of 

 course, any accident must be attended to immediately. 



Some people feed hot, some cold ; some throw away 

 the flesh and mix with broth, others throw away the 

 broth and mix with water. I think both are wrong. 

 Hounds should have both broth and flesh (and, I 

 believe, bones also). The only reason that the broth 

 is thrown away and water substituted is the fear of 

 acidity in the broth. With proper care this should 

 never happen. You may as well give your Hounds 

 poison as sour broth. After hunting feed them with 

 the chill off; at other times I am inclined to feed 

 cold and thick. 



Make your Hounds fond of you ; feed them and coax 

 them ; play with them ; do everything to gain their 

 affection; don't check them for jumping on you ; wear 

 a kennel coat when among them, and don't use a whip. 

 Beckford says, " Hounds should love and fear their 

 Huntsman ; they should fear him much, but love him 



