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whichj Avlien hot, a very few slices would suffice for 

 his dinner, and although — 



"While winter clulls the blood, and binds the veins, 

 No labours are too hard," 



yet the body requires heating, or warming, after 

 them. Light feeders require humouring with the 

 best of the trough, more meat and richer broth 

 than the others ; neither will they eat much when 

 tired, therefore it is wiser to give them a little at 

 first, and about two hours after to offer more, when 

 the stomach has regained its tone for digestion. 

 Although the example set by Mr. Meynell, and 

 other eminent masters of foxhounds since his time, 

 in seeing to the feeding of their hounds, is worthy 

 of imitation, yet it is not an absolute duty, and if so 

 considered, few would undertake it. To one really 

 fond of his hounds it becomes a pleasure rather 

 than a penance ; and the old masters who adopted 

 this course pursued it more from the gratification it 

 afforded them than from actual necessity, when they 

 had trustworthy servants under them. Some have 

 imagined dogs to be more attached to their owners 

 through this means, which may be called " cupboard 

 love,'' at best, not very gratifying; but dogs will 

 attach themselves from another cause— kind treat- 

 ment ; and they soon discover the difference between 

 their feeder and their master. 



We have known many masters to whom their 

 hounds exhibited every token of affection, who 

 never fed but hunted them only, of whom one was 

 the late Assheton Smith, and the welcome with 

 which they greeted him at the place of meeting, or 



