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him, until the time that the child dreads to fail. 

 And first I shall take and teach him for to take in 

 writing all the names of the hounds and of the 

 hues of the hounds, until the time that the child 

 knoweth them both by the hue and by the name. 

 After I will teach him to make clean every day 

 in the morning the hounds' kennel of all foul 

 things. After I will learn him to put before them 

 twice a day fresh water and clean, from a well, in 

 a vessel there where the hound drinks, or fair 

 running water, in the morning and the evening. 

 After I will teach him that once in the day he empty 

 the kennel and make all clean, and renew their 

 straw, and put again fresh new straw a great deal 

 and right thick. And there where he layeth it the 

 hounds should lie, and the place where they should 

 lie should be made of trees a foot high from the 

 earth, and then straw should be laid thereupon, 

 because the moisture of the earth should not make 

 them morfounder nor engender other sicknesses 

 by the which they might be worse for hunting. 

 Also that he be both at field and at wood delivered 

 (active) and well eyed and well advised of his speech 

 and of his terms^ and ever glad to learn and that he 

 he 710 boaster nor j angler. 



