INDEX 



389 



QUI 



QUITTOR, 113 



Quorn hounds, history of, 230 ; 

 the country hunted by, 235 



Railway facilities for hunting 

 from London, 284, 2S6 : 

 effects of long and frequent 

 journeys by, 286 



Rheumatism in hounds, from the 

 situation of the kennel, 122 



Rickards, Mr. L. E., his stud- 

 book for harriers and beagles, 

 90 



Rider, badness in a, described, 

 194; course to pursue in a 

 strange country, 203 ; awk- 

 ward, subterfuges of, 205; 

 courage in, ib. ; advice to, re- 

 specting falls, 207 ; acquire- 

 ment of a good seat by, 208 ; 

 position of, in leaping, 212 ; 

 his hands, 214; when to 

 leave his horse alone, 215 ; 

 judgment in, 217 ; to adapt 

 his riding to circumstances, 

 220 ; to give his leader plenty 

 of room, 221 ; what to do if 

 he choose his own line, ib. ; 

 how to use the spurs, 223 ; 

 how to treat his horse after 

 hunting, 224 



Riot, breaking hounds from, 47 



Robertson- Aikman, Major, his 

 interest in harriers, 90 



Rugby, 247 



Saddles, 115 



St. James's, ancient meets in, 17 



St. John, Oliver, on the killing 



of the fox, 26 

 Salisbury, Duchess of, 14 

 Sandcrack, 112 



STA 



Scent, deer, 49 ; fox, 65 ; otter, 

 320 ; mysteries of, 149, 150 



Scotland, lists of hounds in, fox, 

 345 ; hare, 354 



Scott, Sir Walter, on the killing 

 of the fox, 27 



Sefton, Lord, 231 



Selby-Lowndes, Mr., pack of, 

 262 



Shakespeare's allusion to hare- 

 hunting, 24 



Shaw, Mr., his account of a re- 

 markable migration of otters, 



3" 

 Sheep, moorland, protection of, 



from stag-hounds, 47 

 Shires, definition of the, 226 ; 



hunting in the, 227 

 Shoeing, 116 

 Sidney's ' Book of the Horse,' 



116 

 Smith, Assheton, nerve and 



pluck of, 207 ; his mastership 



of the Quorn hounds, 231 

 Smith, Thomas, plan of, for the 



Billesdon kennels, 123 ; a bad 



leap by, 213 

 ' Sober Robin,' a long-backed 



hunter, 183 ; remarkable leap 



of, 191 



Somerville's ' Chase,' 4, 20 ; on 

 the situation for building a 

 kennel, 121 ; his description 

 of the perfect hound, 141 



Spencer family, connection of, 

 with the Pytchley hounds, 



243 

 Spurs, use of, 223 

 Stables, excessive heat in, 99, 



102; sanitary requisites of, 100; 



choice of servants for the, 10 1 : 



bow arranged at Badminton, 



ib. 



