DISEASES TO WHICH HOUNDS ARE LIABLE. 1G7 



skillfull of the castlo strong beer." It was ^' merry 

 in hall, for beards wagged all," in those days, 

 for the logs were kept in a gigantic blaze where 

 the servitors congregated ; and I remember to 

 have seen a pet lamb, whicli was given to me 

 by John Philimore from the Cotswolds, fenced in 

 in the servants' hall by logs until such time as 

 I claimed him, with an ample and roomy fold of 

 fuel. 



After the farm-labourers had delivered their 

 puppies at the kennel, there was always a strong- 

 muster of wounded men formed in the kennel 

 Idtchcn or boiling-house around old John Curnock, 

 the boiler, for liis advice, and culinary and surgical 

 administration to their bleeding wounds. The 

 morose or ill-tempered and refractory puppies, who 

 had resisted imprisonment and induction to the 

 kennels, had bitten the hand of their captors, 

 while others, already suffering from madness 

 occasioned by common distemper, since termed 

 ^'rabies," had fastened their teeth in their legs 

 or other parts of their persons ; and old John 

 Curnock, having for many long j^ears boiled for the 

 hounds, and been bitten more or less all liis life? 

 was deemed to possess an infallible cure for 



