CHAPTER XXI 



HOW THE HOUNDS SHOULD BE LED OUT TO 

 SCOMBRE 



Also I will teach * the child to lead out the hounds 

 to scombre twice in the day in the morning and 

 in the evening, so that the sun be up, especially 

 in winter. Then should he let them run and play 

 long in a fair meadow in the sun, and then comb 

 every hound after the other, and wipe them with 

 a great wisp of straw, and thus he shall do every 

 morning. And then shall he lead them into some 

 fair place there where tender grass grows as corn 

 and other things, that therewith they may feed 

 them (selves) as it is medicine for them, for some- 

 times hounds are sick and with the grass that they 

 eat they void and heal themselves. 



1 The first four words are omitted in our MS., but they are 

 in the Shirley MS. and in others, and in G. de F. 



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