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when following her master through a grass park near Gilmer- 

 ton, it happened that she started a hare. During the pur- 

 suit her master suddenly lost sight of her, and in a few days 

 she was considered either killed or lost. Six weeks after- 

 wards, a person happen ing to look down the shaft of an old 

 coal-pit, was surprised hy hearing a dog howling. He im- 

 mediately returned to the village, and having procured a 

 hand-basket, let it down by a rope into the shaft ; the dog 

 instantly leapt into it, and on being brought to the surface, 

 it turned out to be Gipsy, the lost terrier bitch of my friend, 

 worn to perfect skin and bone. How she had existed in this 

 subterranean abode it is impossible to tell. 



Stagliounds, foxhounds, harriers, and beagles, are gene- 

 rally fed on oatmeal ; and the older it is the better, so that it 

 is not fusty. Store sufficient for twelve or eighteen months' 

 consumption ought, therefore, always to be kept by those 

 who have a pack. The meal should be well dried and 

 broken into grits, but not too fine. It is best kept in bins 

 in a granary, well trodden down. Some persons are in the 

 habit of using barleymeal, but it is not nearly so nutritious 

 as the former. Others are of opinion that oatmeal and 

 barleymeal, in equal proportions, form a preferable food. 

 But nothing is better than oatmeal-porridge, with the addi- 

 tion of a little milk, and occasionally the kitchen-offal, such 

 as remnants of butchers' meat, broth, and soups, the raspings 

 and refuse of bakers' shops, or hard, coarse, sea-biscuit, w^ell 

 soaked and boiled with bullocks' liver or horse-flesh. Well- 

 boiled greens are an excellent addition to the food of all 

 dogs, and may be given twice a week ; but this ought to be 

 discontinued during the shooting season with pointers, set- 

 ters, cockers, and greyhounds ; and also during the hunting- 

 season with fox-hounds, harriers, and beagles, as they are 

 apt to render the bowels too open for hard work. The 



