INDEX. 



3S3 



COR 



Corbet, Mr., 258 



Corns in horses, 1 1 1 



Cottesmore hunt, 239 ; a re- 

 markable day's work of the, 

 240 



* Country Gentleman's Com- 

 panion,' 20 



Crib-biting, prevention of, 103 



Cross-country gallops, 196 



Cunard, Sir Bache, country 

 hunted by, 238 



EXM 



Draper, William, a Yorkshire 

 fox-hunter, 16 



Drawing for hares, 79 ; for foxes, 

 146 ; for otters, 323 



• Druid ' on cross-breeding for 

 hunters, 180; instance of pro- 

 phetic instinct in a horse re- 

 lated by, 216 note ; his de- 

 scription of Dick Knight, 

 244 ; his account of the Duke 

 of Grafton's pack, 269 



Danes, game laws introduced 

 by, 8 



Daventry, 247 



Deer, red, cunning and strata- 

 gems of, 38, 49 ; colour of, 39 ; 

 growth of horns as determin- 

 ing age, ib. ; designated by his 

 points, ib. ; examples of abnor- 

 mal number of points, 40 ; re- 

 production of horn, ih. ; time 

 for hunting, 41 ; ' harbouring,' 

 ib. ; difficulty of procuring 

 hounds for hunting, 47 ; scent, 

 49 ; taking soil, ib. ; running 

 to herd, ib. ; a hunt of, at Ex- 

 moor, 55 ; destructive pro- 

 pensity of, 61 



Derby, twelfth Earl of, stag- 

 hounds of, 32 



Devonshire, North, stag-hunting 

 renown of, 32 



Distemper in hounds, 137 ; 

 effect of rounding ears in, 

 141 



Dracek, Baronne de, a celebrated 

 French huntress, 15 



Drains, how to construct, for 

 foxes, 166 ; for otters, 312 



Drake family of huntsmen, 261 



Draper, Diana, 16 



Ear cropping of hunters, 118 ; 



rounding of puppies, 141 

 Earth, running to, 68 

 Earth-stopper, duties of an, 161 

 Earths, artificial fox, how to 



construct, 166 

 Edward the Confessor, a patron 



of the chase, 9 

 Edward III. accompanied by a 



hunting establishment in his 



wars, 10 ; endeavour of, to 



improve the breed of horses, 



171 

 Elizabeth, Queen, a notable 



huntress, 13 ; stag-hunting in 



the reign of, 36 

 * Emblem,' a famous steeple- 



chaser of bad shape, 183 

 England and Wales, list of 



hounds in, stag, 331 ; fox, 



333 ; hare, 348 ; beagle, 356 

 Epping hunt, origin of, 17 

 Erme, the, an otter river, 317 

 ' Essay on hunting,' anonymous, 



4, 19 

 Essex, curious hunting establish- 

 ment in, 30 

 Essex, East, kennels, plan of, 128 

 Exmoor, antiquity of, as a royal 

 hunting-ground, 32 ; charm 



