ON DISTEMPER AND MADNESS AMONG HOUNDS. llo 



If tlio kcnnel-liuntsman of foxlioimtls (the double 

 capacity of kennel-liiintsman and Imntsman in tlic 

 field had ever best be filled by one man) is 

 quick, intelligent, and observant, the slightest 

 change in the manners or looks of any individual 

 hound must catch his eye. 



When the whole pack — sixty or eighty couples, 

 as the case may be— are together, the young 

 hounds ''put forward" and in their work, and 

 they all assemble round the door of the feeding- 

 house, to answer to their names and be called 

 in one by one to dinner, every hound will be 

 standing in or seated in the same place he has 

 ap2)ropriated to himself from the A^ery first, just 

 as people at a public dinner might do when their 

 names are attached to plates. On more than one 

 occasion, on casting my eye round for a hound 

 to be let in from his accustomed seat, I have seen 

 that he has not been in his usual place, that fact 

 was always quite enough to arouse my furtlier 

 attention to him, for it showed me that he was 

 not quite himself. Thus, my quick apprehension 

 in regard to the hydrophobic young dog, and the 

 fact of my removing him at once from the kennel, 



saved my large pack of foxhounds^ — numerous enough 



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