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although they look well enough for a time, 

 will most probably develop mange the 

 following season, and, having mangy litters 

 infect the whole country, so that it behoves 

 one, when turning down cubs, as your duty 

 to the hunt, to be most particular, and, having 

 given the keeper definite instructions as to 

 how they are to be fed, to see that he carries 

 them out. Remember that it is just when he is 

 most busy with his young birds that the cubs 

 claim his careful attention, and this is why 

 they are frequently allowed to go supperless 

 to bed, or to fill their little "tummies" with 

 what cannot be good for them. 



Fresh-killed rabbits should be put down every 

 day in the evening, and cut in pieces to prevent 

 squabbles at the rate of about one rabbit to 

 every four cubs, when the latter are very small, 

 and half a rabbit each later on. It is astonishing 

 what an amount of food the little beggars will 

 stow away, and as they grow very quickly they 

 require plenty of it. At the same time the feed- 

 ing should not be overdone, in which case they 

 would bury what remains about the place, and 

 probably eat it when quite putrid, which must 

 be bad for them. An occasional fat hen or two 



