202 THE LIFE OF A FOXHOUND. 



" The pudding must be reduced with pure 

 water which has been boiled, and the usual 

 allowance, or perhaps, on some occasions, a 

 trifling addition to the accustomed portion of 

 flesh must of course be given; by this method 

 of feeding, hounds will most assuredly do 

 their work far better than when a quantity 

 of broth with very little or no flesh is given ; 

 a custom adopted in some kennels with very 

 bad results. From such treatment, hounds 

 will be observed light of muscle, big in their 

 bodies, and incapable of running up at the 

 conclusion of a severe day. By adopting the 

 recommendation of substituting water which 

 has been boiled, for broth, on the day before 

 hunting, it will be found that hounds will not 

 evince an equal degree of thirst by constantly 

 lapping on their road to cover, nor will they 

 be so soon blown in chase. ' ' 



" There," ejaculated Trimbush, upon the 

 completion of his task, " that's what I call 

 giving the * why's' for all the ' wherefores.' " 



Clever and philosophical as I deemed this 

 delivery to be, I had become somewhat 

 wearied with it, and in order to divert my 

 companion from steeping his senses in forget- 

 fulness, which his blinking eyelids bore 



