CONTENTS, 



CHAP. I. 



Introductory remarks — Literature relating to field sports— The love of hunting on the 

 decline — Notice of Nimrod's death — Dr. Paley a sportsman — Cruelty to ani- 

 mals considered — Lord Bacon's opinion on the necessity of hunting — A 

 " senior sportsman's" observation on hard riding — A niggardly system of ex- 

 penditure condemned — Hunt committees— Anecdote of Mr. Samuel NichoU — 

 Manner of hunting in Germany — Hunting in Ireland — Foxhounds kept in 

 France — The Baroness de Dracek, an extraordinary character ; and her mode of 

 hunting — King James I., his love of Hunting — Different breeds of hounds : 

 Lord Yarborough's, Lord Fitzwilliam's, Duke of Rutland's, Mr. Osbaldeston's, 

 Lord Monson's, Lord Vernon's, Mr. Warde's, the Duke of Beaufort's, Mr. 

 Noel's or Lord Lonsdale's, Sir Tatton Sykes's, the Pytchley, and the Vine, &c. 

 — Remarks on breeding — Mr. Meynel's Glider — Mr. Meynel's system of hunt- 

 ing — Extraordinary price of Mr. Osbaldeston's hounds — Mr. Foljambe's 

 hounds — Drawing hounds to size and pace — Vices of hounds — Sheep killers — 

 Breeding: the " in and in" system condemned — Mr. Osbaldeston's Furrier — 

 Mr. Muster's Lionel — Marking young hounds — Showing young hounds for a 

 prize — Spaying bitches condemned — Beasts of chase and hunting — Laws relative 

 to hunting — Right of country — Hunt clubs — The Sinnington hunt — Black- 

 balling a snob in the York Union Hunt Club — An attempt to form a club of 

 masters of fox-hounds — Anecdote of the Rev. Mr. Curtis eating a fox — Anec- 

 dotes of hounds — Mr. Musters hunted by his hounds — Mr. Fowne's hounds 

 supposed to be the first regular pack — Early system of fox-hunting — Squire 

 Draper — Mr. Warde — Sir Theophilus Biddulph — Robert Darling, or " Dog 

 Bob," a famous earth-stopper — Fox-hvmting superior to steeple-chasing. — Page 

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CHAP. II. 



Situation for a kennel— Mr. White's opinion of trees — Plan for erecting a kennel— 

 Wm. Smith's opinion on letting hounds lie out in the courts — The young hounds' 

 kennel — The grass court — Shutting up hounds by themselves — A perfect kennel 

 described — The boiling-house and feeding-room — Rats in kennels — Great num- 

 bers destroyed in some kennels — a doe kept in Mr. Warde's kennel — Damp and 

 dry kennels — Kennel lameness — Col. Cooke's opinion — Hounds lamed by gorse 

 — The subject of kennel lameness continued — The Albrighton hounds — Mr. 

 Foljambe's opinion — The late Lord Kintore's hounds, and the situation of their 

 kennel — Bees kept in the Duke of Nassau's kennel — Dick Knight, the builder of 

 the kennels at Brigstock — The Warwickshire kennels — The Holderness kennels 

 at Bishop Burton — Lameness in the royal kennels on Ascot Heath — Lead sup- 



