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and Will Goodall — Tom Sebright and others — Anecdote of 

 Tommy Moore, the Poet — Tribute of respect to Charles 

 Treadwell — Wanton shedding of fox-blood — Accidents may 

 happen — Weeding litters — Bloodthirsty preservers — Count- 

 ing noses — "I never counts 'em whilst they suck" — The 

 fashion in foxhunting . . . . . . .102 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Visits and visitations to cubs — Pet places — Idleness the parent of 

 vice even in foxes— To be kept moving — Small and large 

 coverts — Mr. Ward and the Craven country — Southgrove the 

 elysium of foxes — Friendly societies — A novel plan for 

 breaking them up — Faggots vice foxhounds — Always at home 

 — Woodland foxes . . . . . . . .112 



CHAPTER XV. 



Faults in foxhounds — Hard work and no play makes Jack a dull 

 boy — Trial of speed in the open — Hasty drafting censured — 

 Beckford's anecdote — Packing together — The cry of hounds 

 — Happy medium — Touch and go — Noisy at fences — Will 

 Goodall's opinion of large hounds— The late Assheton Smith 

 and Freeman — The music of the pack — Gervase Markham 

 thereon . . . . . . . . . . 117 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Fashion of the day not in favour of music — Pace only thought of 

 — Distinction between a mute and light tongue — Peculiar 

 instinct in drawing — Deputy — The late Mr. Codrington on 

 gorse coverts — Opening on the drag — Too much bow-wowing 

 reprehensible — How to convert harriers into foxhounds — A 

 veritable fact — Treeing a martin — A narrow escape — The run 

 home— Qualities in foxhounds — Cardinal points — Long and 

 hard days occasionally of service . . . . .126 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Sites of kennels — New building preferable to old — Ancient 

 mansions — The Belvoir kennels the model for all others — 

 Ground and aspect — Too small dimensions bad economy — 

 The Author's ideas on the subject — Drainage — Hot air — 

 Walls and palings — Seclusion — Supply of water — Tanks 

 Hobson's choice — Other observations on the kennel — Warm 

 lodging as necessary as good feeding — Wholesome meat 

 indispensable to health . 135 



