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enough, and well better than I can tell them. Never- 

 theless when so is that the paunch is taken out clean 

 and whole and the small guts, one of the groom 

 chacechiens should take the paunch and go to the 

 next water withal, and slit it, and cast out the 

 filth and wash it clean, that no filth abide therein. 

 And then bring it again and cut it in small gobetts 

 in the blood that should be kept in the skin and the 

 lungs withal, if they be hot and else not, and all the 

 small guts withal, and bread broken therein accord- 

 ing whether the hounds be few or many, and all this 

 turned and meddled together among the blood till it 

 be well brewed in the blood, and then look for a 

 small green, and thither bear all this upon the skin 

 with as much blood as can be saved, and there lay 

 it, and spread the skin thereupon, the hair side 

 upward, and lay the head, the visage, forward at 

 the neck end of the skin. And then the lord shall 

 go take a fair small rod in his hand, the which one of 

 the yeomen or of the grooms should cut for him, and 

 the Master of the Game and other, and the sergeants, 

 and each of the yeomen on horse, and others, and 

 then the Lord should take up the harfs head by 

 the right side between the surroyal and the fork 

 or troche whichever it be that he bear, and the 

 Master of the Game, the left side in the same wise, 

 and hold the head upright that the nose touch the 

 earth. And then every man that is there, save the 

 berner s on foot and the chacechiens and the lymerers 



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