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said he, ' we give them bones and milk, or any thing we can get, but we have 

 nothing for the hounds.' Nothing ! I exclaimed, pressing forward, anxious to see 

 how dogs could be kept upon NOTHING ; and entering the inner court, I found 

 that the boy's 'nothing' was very nearly correct. Most of the hounds were 

 stretched either upon the sleeping benches, without a bit of straw, or upon the 

 bricks of the court : those upon their legs, appeared scarcely able to support their 

 weight and I myself saw one of them swallow the excrement which had been just 

 voided by another ! Their carcases were emaciated to an extent, I never witnessed 

 in any animal ; their bones appeared literally starting through the skin, the eyes 

 hollow and sunk in the head, and the only notice they took of me was, an im- 

 ploring look, or a gentle wag of recognition. A few potatoes was the only 

 ppearance of food. The water was putrid. There was not a vestige of flesh in 

 ny part of the kennel, nor had the coppers, from their appearance, been used for 

 sme time. It is not long since nine of the best hounds died almost suddenly ; 

 teir death was imputed to poison ; but it is my firm belief, that it was occasioned 

 I/ their overloading their stomachs with flesh after fasting three days, one of 

 vliich they had been hunted." 



(Signed) " SALOPIENSIS." 



lo Salopiensis we return our thanks for this exposition, in the name of common 

 hunanity, and of every thing that is great and respectable in HUNTING. And, to 

 the >roprietor of the Pack, we, with feelings of an appropriate kind, dedicate the 

 al>ov> extract from the letter of Salopiensis. 



