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reared successfully, must go out to walk : the risks of 

 accidents and distemper will have to be chanced. The 

 best plan is to give a handsome luncheon to the puppy 

 walkers and prizes for the best hounds ; this will 

 encourage the farmers to look after their charges and 

 make them take an interest in the pack. The hounds 

 that survive the danger of walks always appear to have 

 more sense than those that are kept at home." In 

 another foot-note he says : " Unless the pups look 

 well when they go out, you cannot expect them to be 

 in good order on their return." It will be seen that 

 Mr. Paget, writing at the close of the nineteenth 

 century, does not contemplate the cases where puppies 

 are walked at the mansion-house. Yet I have known 

 puppies to be " walked " by the occupiers of suburban 

 villas, to the great annoyance of their neighbours. 

 Certainly, the suburban villa possessed an orchard or 

 paddock, which Peter Beckford apparently thought 

 sufficient for the purpose of "walking puppies" ; but 

 then the orchard or paddock was not paled in, so as 

 to prevent the canine pupil from running out of 

 bounds. 



Let me now quote a few lines from " Scrutator's " 

 " System of Kennel and Science of Fox-hunting." 



" Where whelps are sent out to very distant walks, 

 some forty or fifty miles from kennel, where they are 

 far removed from the supervision of master and man, 

 it is no uncommon thing for them to meet with rough 

 usage and coarser fare during the chief part of their 

 sojourn there ; but as the time approaches for their 

 return they are then fatted up for the occasion, to 



