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for Ranter, if given to Rallywood, would render 

 him unable to run a yard. Sometime before hunt- 

 ing, (say about three weeks,) they should have 

 plenty of walking exercise, and salts given them 

 once a week. If a hound is at any time very foul, 

 the following receipt is very efficacious : — Three 

 grains of ^thiops mineral, five grains of calomel, 

 made into a ball : the hound must of course be 

 carefully kept from cold water."' 



In the summer time, when hounds are out of 

 work, they do not require flesh more than twice a 

 week, and succulent vegetables in their food are at 

 this time useful. They are also physicked and 

 bled at the close of one season, and before the com- 

 mencement of the next ; and, if necessary, dressed 

 over with a sulphureous mixture during the idle 

 months. But some owners of hounds and hunts- 

 men object to dressing them, conceiving that it 

 opens their pores too much, and subjects them to 

 rheumatic affections. 



One recent and great improvement in kennel 

 discipline is, a small reservoir of water within the 

 walls, of sufficient depth to cleanse the legs of 

 hounds, but not to wet their bodies, which they 

 are made to walk through immediately on their 

 coming home. Upon being turned into their lodg- 

 ing-room, they commence licking themselves dry, 

 which, as a dog's tongue is proverbially called his 

 " doctor," is most beneficial to their feet, by clear- 

 ing them of sand or gravel, as well as healing any 

 trifling wounds which they may have received. In 

 the Duke of Cleveland's kennel, this reservoir was 



