390 



HUNTING. 



STA 



Stag, ancient laws for the pro- 

 tection of the, 38. See Deer 



Staghounds for the Exmoors, 47 ; 

 breaking them from sheep, 

 48 ; kennel management of, 

 ib. ; number of the pack, 49 ; 

 choice of tufters, 50 ; how to 

 be handled in the field, 51 ; 

 scenting discrimination of, 52 ; 

 treatment of, after immersion, 

 ib. ; causes of truancy in, 54 ; 

 accessible to Londoners, 284; 

 lists of, 331 



Stag-hunting in former times, 

 23, 30 ; national love of, 36 ; 

 peculiar charm of, on the Ex- 

 moor, 37 ; season of, 41 ; 

 choice and management of 

 hounds for, 47 ; selection of 

 horses for, 55 ; a day's ex- 

 perience of, with Arthur Heal, 

 ib. ; from London, 284 



Stamford, Lord, sale of the stud 

 of, 190 



Steeple-chasers, conversion of, 

 into hunters, 179 



Stirrups, length of, 212 



Strutt, Joseph, his notice of an 

 early manuscript treatise, 5 ; 

 his antiquarian researches, 8 



Suffield, Lord, Quorn hounds 

 removed to Billesdon by, 123 ; 

 anecdote of, 84 ; his master- 

 ship of the Quorn hounds, 

 233 



WAR 



Terriers, suggested use of, in 

 hare-drawing, 79 ; valuable 

 adjuncts to an earth-stopper, 

 161 ; for otter-hunting, 328 



Thomson's verses on fox-hunt- 

 ing, 24 



Thomson, Col. Anstruther, on 

 the best method of hunting, 



87 



Thorough -breds as hunters, 178 



Thrush in horses, 112 



Thursby, Sir John, his interest 

 in harriers and beagles, 90 



Tollit, Joseph, 268 



Tout, James, Lord Fortescue's 

 huntsman, 32 



' Trencher hounds,' 29 



Trollope, Anthony, his expe- 

 riences of hunting from 

 London, 283 



Tufters, choice of, 50 



Turberville, George, 7 ; on fox- 

 hunting, 27 



Twici, Guillaume, treatise on 

 hunting by, 5, 7 ; his division 

 of animals of chase, 22 ; on 

 hare-hunting, 23 



' Unknown,' a famous hunter 

 of bad shape, 182 



Vaccination for distemper, 137 

 Voice, the, and its use, 155 

 Vyner (Mr.), his account of the 

 Baronne de Dracek, 15 



Tailby, Mr., 233 ; country of, 



238 

 Tar Wood run, the, 267 

 Tattersall's, purchasing hunters 



at, 189 

 Taunton as head-quarters lor 



otter-hunters, 306 



AValnoth, Abbot, his love of 



the chase, 12 

 Walter, Bishop of Rochester, his 



love of the chase, 1 1 

 Walton, Izaak, on teaching by 



books, 214 

 Warburton, Egerton, 2 ; his 



