96 KOTITIA VENATICA. 



CHAP. V. 



ON THP] GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF 

 HOUNDS. 



' ' My hounds shall wake 

 The lazy morn, and glad the horizon round." 



Chase. 



CONTENTS. 



Commencement of the season — Young hounds brought into the kennel — Rounding 

 puppies at their quarters— Inspection of hounds in kennel — Anecdote of an 

 ignorant M.F.H. — The number requisite to put forward — Purchasing draft 

 hounds — The first and second draft — Hounds should match in size and appear- 

 ance — Mr. Osbaldeston's and Mr. Villebois' sorts — Throaty hounds, Old Finder 

 — The true shape of a hound described — Extensive breeders of hounds — Lord 

 Fitzwilliam's hounds — Will Dean and Will Crane, both famous huntsnien — 

 Lord Yarborough's hounds, and his huntsman. Will Smith ; his death— Jackal- 

 hunting in India— Breaking young hounds — Anecdotes of wildness — Mr. Mey- 

 nel's hounds, Gallant and Gameboy — Trailed scents formerly used — Notice of 

 the Rev. Dr. Vyner — Mr. Digby Legard's match — The wild-goose chase de- 

 scribed — Mr. Meynel's match, and Mr. Smith Barry's hound Bluecap — Show- 

 ing young hounds riot in a park — Charles King's system — Jack Wood's perse- 

 verance — Roe-deer— A good ear for hounds when dividing — Early reminiscences 

 — My first brush — The Warwickshire hounds — William Shaw's system of enter- 

 ing to hare in the spring — Will Carter — Summer management of hounds, and 

 condition — Time for dressing — Exercise — Early commencement of cub-hunting 

 at Belvoir — Late harvests in the north — Great number of foxes killed in some 

 hunts — Bag-foxes bad for hounds — Evening cub-hunting ridiculous — Great 

 labour of cub-hunting — Pheasant-preserves prejudicial to sport — System of 

 hunting altered — Old Tom Rose — Jem Butler— How to kill a cub handsomely 

 — Blood of great consequence — Plenty of exercise requisite — A dog killed by 

 Lord Middleton's hounds — The fox in the chimney — Mr. Stubbs — Anecdote of 

 Jack Shirley — Ditto of a hound suckling cubs — Sir Thomas Mostyn and the 

 Oxonians — Extraordinary run in cub -hunting. 



The opening of tliis chapter sliall be the commencement of a new 

 season, and in it I will endeavour to lead my reader through the Avhole 

 routine of the economy of the hunting kennel ; and although topics may 

 he introduced, and incidents recorded, which may at first sight appear 

 extraneous and heavy, still they will be found to he so interwoven with 

 the main object, that they are absolutely necessary and convenient to 

 carry on the design, and that, like a firm building, the cavities must be 



