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sake of the good cause of hunting, to bear with patience their 

 extremely mischievous though playful ways. If practicable, 

 it is better to walk two than one, because they do much 

 better in company than singly. Like all other young animals, 

 they require good feeding, plenty of exercise, and abundance 

 of fresh air. As food, they may get new milk ; scraps from 

 the table, including green vegetables ; a boiled paunch now 

 and then, and bones on which to clean and develop their 



Fig. 225. A practicable Bullfinch. 



teeth. Confinement makes their legs crooked, and straining 

 at a collar not only ruins their shoulders, but also is very 

 apt to make them choke themselves or break their necks. 

 It is advisable to keep them from coming in contact with or 

 even going near strange dogs, which are liable to give them 

 distemper, in which case they will seldom return to the 

 kennels. Distemper, to which foxhounds are peculiarly 

 susceptible, is an extremelv infectious disease, and often 



