CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



PAGE 



Introductory 1 



CHAPTER II. 



Management of Hounds — Doing the thing as it should be done — Know- 

 ledge of Country essential in the Master and Huntsman — Compared 

 with an Army — Business of Hunting — Differences in Country — 

 Leicestershire and Hampshire — Necessity of Hounds being qualified 

 for their particular Country — Mr. Smith and the Hambledon ... 8 



CHAPTER III, 



Description of Hound adapted to Hertfordsliire — Good and bad Luck — 

 Mr, Meynell's Opinion as to the Size of a Hound — Mr. Barnett and 

 the Cambridgeshire — Fast Hounds and quick Hounds — Lord Segrave's 

 Blood — Draft from his Kennel — Hon. G. Berkley and his Hounds — 

 Size of Hounds best for Herts. — Arched Loins, or wheeled Backs — 

 Purity of Blood to be preferred to any Cross — Mr. Smith's Cross with 

 the Bloodhound — Shape of Hounds — their height 17 



CHAPTER IV. 



Huntsman, as an intellectual Being — The Power of Mind — " Blood will 

 tell " — Gentlemen against the World — Duke of Wellington and the 

 Army — Best Class of Professional Huntsmen — Advantages of Temper 

 in all Education — Difference in Disposition of Hounds — Pecidiarities 

 — Summary of General Duties of Huntsmen in Kennel 37 



CHAPTER V. 



Whipper-in — Advantages of Practical Explanation — Anecdote of a 

 Miracle — Essentials m a Whipper-in — Duties in Kennel, and in the 

 Field — Discrimination — Passive Obedience — Tom Ball 50 



