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eye over the hounds, and exclaim, in complimentary 

 guise, ^MVliat even condition!" 



A more empt]^ compliment than this in the 

 hunting- season was never administered. Hounds 

 vary in the amount of flesh they had better carry, 

 as much as fighting men or racing horses do ; for 

 though one liound may be the better for a little 

 flesh, another cannot well he drawn too fine if you 

 expect from him the best of his pace and stoutness 

 in the field. It is for this reason that a good 

 kennel huntsman is invaluable. Huntsmen in the 

 field and lumtsmen in the kennel, ifpossihle, should 

 always go together, because the field huntsman, if 

 he rides well to his hounds, will very soon find out 

 the peculiarities of constitution in each hound, and 

 feed accordingly. 



Of course if the hounds hunt from four to six 

 days a week, there must be a feeder or kennel 

 huntsman under him, to feed while the head man is 

 out ; but the keenly observant huntsman, who rides 

 to help his hounds when necessary, and to give 

 them blood, should, in and out of the kennel, make 

 condition his study. 



If I am invited to see the meet of hounds, (Grod 

 help me! I have not the means, and have, in the 



