36 SYSTEM OF KEXXEL AXD 



CHAPTER YI. 



Prizes for raising foxhounds — Good feeding and careful treatment 

 requisite for development of form — The master's eye makes the 

 hound fat — Objections to distant walks — The malpractices of 

 puppy dogs — Home education not suitable — Return to kennel 

 — First draft — Number put forward — A day on the flags — Choice 

 of entry — Room for improvement — The gentler sex take the 

 lead — Pytchley run of ''QQ, and the Waterloo hero — Long days 

 and long runs of "auld lang syne" — A late draw — The white 

 horse in a dark night — Sensational visit to an old lady's 

 domicile — A long ride home. 



The practice adopted by ourselves many years ago 

 of giving prizes to the rearers of the finest young 

 hounds, has been generally followed, producing 

 nearly the same effect as prizes awarded to cattle, 

 sheep, and pigs, at agricultural meetings ; and it 

 frequently happens that a successful exhibitor of 

 the best animal of his own breeding carries away 

 also the silver tankard for the clevei-est foxhound 

 of his own feeding. When the master or his 

 huntsman has exercised good judgment in produc- 

 ing whelps, which he has reason to think ought to 

 turn out clever from the fair proportions of sire 

 and dam, the full development of form depends, in 

 a very great measure, upon their treatment in the 

 most growing state of their existence, from three 



