INDEX. 



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of room, 211 ; what to do if 



he choose his own line, ib. ; 



how to use the spurs, 213 ; 



how to treat his horse after 



hunting, 214 



Riot, breaking hounds from, 47 

 Rugby, 237 



SADDLES, 105 



St. James's, ancient meets in, 17 



St. John, Oliver, on the killing 

 of the fox, 26 



Salisbury, Duchess of, 14 



Sandcrack, 102 



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

 310; mysteries of, 139, 140 



Scotland, lists of hounds in, fox, 

 333 ; hare, 341 



Scott, Sir Walter, on the killing 

 of the fox, 27 



Sefton, Lord, 221 



Selby-Lowndes, Mr., pack of, 

 252 



Shakespeare's allusion to hare- 

 hunting, 24 



Shaw, Mr., his account of a re- 

 markable migration of otters, 

 301 



Sheep, moorland, protection of, 

 from stag-hounds, 47 



Shires, definition of the, 216 ; 

 hunting in the, 217 



Shoeing, 106 



Sidney's ' Book of the Horse,' 

 1 06 



Smith, Assheton, nerve and 

 pluck of, 197 ; his mastership 

 of the Quorn hounds, 221 



Smith, Thomas, plan of, for the 

 Billesdon kennels, 113 ; a bad 

 leap by, 203 



' Sober Robin,' a long-backed 



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hunter, 173 ; remarkable leap 

 of, 181 



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

 the situation for building a 

 kennel, in ; his description 

 of the perfect hound, 131 



Spencer family, connection of, 

 with the Pytchley hounds, 



233 



Spurs, use of, 213 



Stables, excessive heat in, 89, 

 92 ; sanitary requisites of, 90 ; 

 choice of servants for the, 91 ; 

 how arranged at Badminton, 

 ib. 



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, 274 ; 

 lists of, 321 



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, 274 



Stamford, Lord, sale of the stud 

 of, 1 80 



Steeple-chasers, conversion of, 

 into hunters, 169 



Stirrups, length of, 202 



Strutt, Joseph, his notice of an 



