CONTENTS. IX 



CHAPTER IX. 



PAGE 



Training for cub-hunting — The unde derivatur oi hound language 

 — Its use and abuse— Cheerfulness and good humour in man 

 productive of cheerful obedience in animals — Whey an 

 excellent alterative — Our old kennel huntsman — Bondsman 

 in disgrace — Whips not to be used in kennel — Visit of a 

 Dutchman — His dread of foxhounds — A young lady's new- 

 waltzing partner — Her parting kiss — The late J. Starkey, of 

 SpyePark 64 



CHAPTER X. 



More remarks on training — Gradual increase of pace — Swimming 

 through streams — No necessity for periodical dressings — 

 Beckford's opinion at variance with our own— Clean wheat 

 straw indispensable as litter — Vegetables during summer — 

 Alteratives — Old oatmeal the staple food — Mode of prepara- 

 tion — Objections to barley — Iron boilers, not copper — Time 

 for boiling — Grood man-cook — French cuisine — " De gustibus 

 non est disputandum " — A has greaves . . . .74 



CHAPTER XI. 



Cub-hunting, the rehearsal of foxhunting — Teaching the young 

 ideas how to hunt — Tutors and governess for the entry — 

 Division of the pack — Early dawn most favourable for scent 

 — A single hound a match for a fox — Rambler showing the 

 white feather, and sent rambling — Cub-hunting in the even- 

 ing — Objections to it — Giving views — Blooding the entry — 

 111 effects of lifting young hounds — More haste, less speed — 

 The meaning of the horn — Babbling and skirting . . 83 



CHAPTER XII. 



The twofold use of cub-hunting — Barring out young foxes — 

 Shyness of fox family — Main earths — Untenable objections 

 to them — Poachers, and their modus operandi — Former 

 value of foxes — "Light come, light go " — Fence months to 

 other game, no defence to foxes — The May fox and July cub — 

 Early cub-hunting recommended — Difference between grass 

 and arable countries — Hardness of ground injurious to 

 hounds' feet — Easy places and short work — Early impres- 

 sions most lasting — When to let well alone — Marking to 

 ground — Scene at a coalpit . . . . . .92 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Master's presence necessary to judge of entry — Duties devolving 

 on masters — Some excuses for neglecting them — First-class 

 huntsmen — Duke of Beaufoi-t's letter to Will Long — Goosey 



