The hooke of Hunting 23 



THE auncient Authours would fay, that a man maye 

 knowe the beft whelpes by the dammes teates, and that 

 fuch as commonly fucked the teates which are nearer the 

 heart of the damme, are the beft and the ftrongeft, bycaufe the 

 bloude about that place is moft lyuely and delicate. Others 

 haue fayde, that they might be knowne by a token which they 

 haue vnder the throate, whereas there are certayne haires lyke 

 vnto Hogges bryflles, and that if there be odde haires, it is a 

 token of goodnelle, and that if there be euen, it is an euill token. 

 Some other haue taken marke by the hynder legges, by the 

 dewclawes, for if there be none (faye they) it is a good token, 

 and if there be but one, it is alfo good, but if there be two, it 

 is an euill likelyhoode. 



Some agayne wyll looke within the mouth of the whelpe, 

 thinking that fuche as haue the roofe of their mouthe blacke 

 Ihould be good, and fuche as are redde there, fhould not be muche 

 worth. And if they haue theyr noftrelles wyde and open, it is 

 a fygne that they fliall be of perfed fent. As to the confideration 

 of other partes of the bodye, there is no great iudgement, vn- 

 tyll they be three or foure monethes olde. NeuerthelefTe, I_take 

 them whiche haue long, large, and thicke eares, and the hayre 

 vnder their belly hard and great, to be the beft, and thofe markes 

 I haue proued and founde true,^ Nowe bycaufe I haue thereof 

 fpoken a little before, I will fpeake none other thing therevpon 

 at this prefent. 



That it is beft bringing vp of whelpes in 



villages in the countrey, and not 



in fhambles. Chap. 10 



WHen your whelpes be brought vp two monethes vnder 

 the damme, and that you fee they can feede well, then 

 fliall it be good to feede them abroad into the Vyllages to keepe 

 in fome fayre place whiche is neare vnto fome water, and 

 farre from any Warren of Coneys, for as much as if they haue 

 TURB. VEN. D fcarcitie 



