46 Otters and Otter-Hunting. 



exercise every week-day with perhaps a longer spell 

 once or twice a week. If this plan be pursued the 

 "physicking" common to the early spring process 

 of "conditioning" in some kennels will largely 

 obviated. The medicine-chest in most kennels is 

 usually much too capacious, and its contents might 

 in many cases be sorted out and simplified with great 

 advantage. 



There is one danger to which Otter-hounds are 

 in some " countries " more liable than other hounds 

 — death from adder-bite. The huntsman should 

 keep an eye open for casualties of this kind, 

 and either he or the kennel-boy should, in the 

 hunting-field, carry a small supply of sal-vola- 

 tile and olive-oil ready mixed in the proportion 

 of 30 drops of the former to 2oz. of the 

 latter. A drench of this size should be given 

 at once to a hound bitten by an adder, and repeated 

 after a lapse of six hours, the wound being rubbed 

 with the same mixture. This remedy was, I think, 

 originally published in The Field. For terriers the 

 drench should be about a quarter of the above 

 quantity, the proportions of the two ingredients 

 remaining the same. 



I append a list of names suitable for Otter- 

 hounds. In many kennels drafts from Otter-hound, 

 staghound, and foxhound packs are received which 

 are already named, and no effort is made to change 



