CHAPTER II. 

 ''A Year's Work in Kennel." 



The year in connection with all hunting establish- 

 ments commences on the ist of May. and I will 

 presume we are about to deal with a three-days-a- 

 week pack of foxhounds, and that there are fifty 

 couples of hounds in kennel, this being the requisite 

 number — viz., two packs w^here breeding is carried 

 on, and if not, about forty couples will suffice. 



The necessary staff about the kennel will consist 

 of a huntsman, first and second w^hippers-in, a kennel- 

 man, and a boy. 



By this date the old and young draft will have 

 been made, the young hounds rounded, and the first 

 duty of the master will be to see that both the old 

 and young hounds have several hours' walking 

 exercise ever}^ day. 



The young hounds will be taken out in couples 

 and made thoroughly handy and obedient before 

 being allowed out with the working pack, and one 

 essential point I would here mention. When there 

 are ten to fifteen couples of young hounds to exercise 



