176 FACT AGAINST FICTIOK. 



CHAPTER VI. 



EFFECTS OF PHYSIC ON HOUND AND DOG — KENNEL 

 DISCIPLINE — THE FOX. 



Difficulty of administering Pliysic — Curious power of rejection at 

 will — My Bloodhound " Druid " — Importance of ivholesome 

 Flesh to Hounds — Iron Boilers should be used, not Copper — 

 How to know good Oatmeal, and how to Cook it for the Hounds 

 — Hunting the Fox. 



The attempt to meet by medicine the maladies to 

 wliicli the canine race is subject, is very often 

 defeated by the powers of will possessed by the 

 patients themselveSj to which they make the action 

 of the stomach subservient. If they even suspect 

 medicine in their food, however carefully disguised, 

 they will not touch it ; and, if seduced to take a bit 

 of meat in the midst of which a pill is concealed, 

 though from having sat by their master's plate, and 

 taken from his hand, and swallowed without tasting 

 them, three or four such bits before, if some slight 

 sensation or after-taste suggests physic, they have 



