Introductory 



CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



CHAPTER 11. 



Management of Hounda — Doing the thing as it should be done — 

 Knowledge of Country essential in the Master and Huntsmen — 

 Compared with an Army— Business of Hunting — Difterences 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 Hertfordshire — 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. Berkeley and his Hounds — Size of Hounds best for Herts — 

 Arched Loins, or Wheeled Backs — Purity of Blood to be pre- 

 ferred 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 — Advan- 

 tages of Temper in all Education — Difference in Disposition of 

 Hounds — Peculiarities — Summary of General Duties of Hunts- 

 men in Kennel , . . . . . .36 



CHAPTER V. 



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

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

 the Field— Discrimination— Passive Obedience — Tom Ball . 48 



