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of matting- over the yard so that hounds would 

 be protected from the sun and yet able to lie 

 in the open. But if this is not done, I advise 

 putting them in their sleeping-rooms from say 

 eleven till two, even in the cold weather, since 

 nothing is so bad for hounds as lying in the 

 sun. The day's routine with my hounds was 

 as follows : I used to go out as soon as it was 

 light and let the hounds out for five or ten 

 minutes, and then getting on a pony and taking 

 one of the kennel men — I kept one for each 

 three couple of hounds — -we went out for a trot 

 along the road. While this was being done 

 the kennels were thoroughly cleaned and swept 

 and the straw beds put out in the sun. On 

 the return of the pack I used to sit in the 

 kennel while the hounds were cleaned, the 

 following being the process : Each hound was 

 damped — not wetted — with a cloth dipped into 

 a weak solution of Jeyes' Fluid, then he was 

 hand-rubbed all over and thoroughly dried, and 

 last of all brushed over with a soft horse brush. 

 This done, it was feeding time. The food 

 consisted of legs, shoulders, and breasts of 

 mutton with atta i boiled thoroughly, occa- 

 sionally a litde rice, and twice a week green 

 vegetables mixed with it. Hounds should be 

 drawn one by one by name in lots of two or 

 ^ Wheat flour. 

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