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never travelled over those ten miles at such a pace 

 before. 



We must now return to the transit of foxhound 

 whelps from the kennel to their country quarters^ 

 which is generally effected by a dog-cart ; not the 

 sort of vehicle so called in these times, but a veri- 

 table dog or puppy-cart, constructed solely for their 

 accommodation, and resembling the van now in 

 use to convey hounds to the place of meeting. 

 There is one great advantage in giving names to 

 whelps when first sent out, irrespective of the 

 absurd misnomers by which they are likely to be 

 christened at their walks — that when returned to 

 the kennel a great deal of trouble will be saved to 

 the huntsman and feeder, and a vast amount of dis- 

 comfort to the hounds. A dog Avhich knows his 

 name, even when transferred from one master to 

 another, becomes sooner reconciled to his new owner 

 from being thus familiarly spoken to, and therefore 

 we advise the adoption of this practice for all 

 foxhound whelps, as well as any other whelps sent 

 from home. In their new quarters there is gene- 

 rally a great diversity of treatment, save where 

 their protectors for the time happen to be tenants 

 of the master. In that case they will be carefully 

 tended an d well provided for ; but when walks are 

 procured through the interest of friends or sub- 

 scribers, there being no connecting link with the mas- 

 ter, the chances are all against these whelps figuring 

 in the next entry. Genuine foxhunting farmers are 

 the men, above all others, to whom we can confi- 



