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should not be as wholesome food as ox-beef. Both 

 animals feed alike, although the horse does not 

 chew the cud ; and we are assured by those who 

 have tried the experiment that the meat of a young 

 fat horse is quite as good as that of a stall-fed bul- 

 lock — and so it may be, for all we can prove to the 

 contrary. My father's feeder told us that he gene- 

 rally dined in the boiling-house, but being a man 

 of Herculean strength in body and constitution, it 

 would not have surprised us had he cooked a couple 

 of young puppies for his breakfast, since old Tom's 

 stomach would digest anything except the prong of 

 the stirrer. De gustihus own est clispidandurti — 

 but we suspect that our English eaters must undergo 

 a wonderful change, and extraordinary pressure from 

 without, before we shall deprive the kennel of its 

 perquisites in horse-flesh. 



Greaves are a miserable substitute — the most 

 . foul unwholesome stuff that can be given to dogs 

 of any kind, and totally unfitted for foxhounds, in 

 the season or out of season, being the refuse of 

 butchers' shops, odds and ends of candles sold by 

 servants as their perquisites, and any other articles 

 containing fat, all of which being boiled up together, 

 the sediment which remains, with the scum, is 

 pressed into a hard cake, and sold for dogs' meat. 

 Sheeps' trotters were formerly readily obtained, and 

 the broth from them is equally nutritious — more so 

 even than horse-flesh; the bones, of course, being 

 picked out before mixing with the meat. 



Enough has been written to show that to keep 

 foxhounds in healthful condition, none but good 



