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functionary would be called the kennel feeder, and it would 

 be his duty amongst other things to walk out all the hounds 

 left at home three or four times a day for fifteen or twenty 

 minutes each time. In the case of a gentleman hunting his 

 own hounds, or the subscription pack of which he is master, 

 it is necessary to have a kennel huntsman. There are three 





sorts : one who is old and does not ride, except to exercise the 

 hounds in summer, and whose sole occupation is to feed and 

 look after them and doctor them during the hunting season ; 

 another, a man capable of hunting them should illness or 

 business oblige the master to absent himself from the field. 

 There are great advantages in this second sort, because it is 

 not fair to ask a whipper-in to hunt hounds, nor to ask hounds 



