TO HUNTSMEN 



and attention. It is not sufficient to drop 

 the food down before the puppy; you 

 must stay and see that he eats it. Yellows 

 is a much more dangerous disease than 

 distemper, and coming with it, as it often 

 does, is almost always fatal. Calomel in 

 some form or other seems to be the only 

 remedy, and that a very uncertain one. 

 Never let the old and young hounds lodge 

 or feed together till cub-hunting. If rabies 

 breaks out, it almost always comes from 

 some hound having been bitten at quarters. 

 If you have once had rabies in your kennel 

 you will never forget it. 



Ride your horses fairly, and do not try 

 and gain the praise of ignorant onlookers 

 by jumping unnecessary fences; and do 

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