410 HUNTING. 



Expenses for four times a week : — 



Fourteen horses, &c., . . . . . . . £700 



Hounds' food for fifty couples, 275 



Firing, 50 



Taxes, 120 



Two whippers-in and feeder, 210 



Earth-stopping, 80 



Saddlery, 100 



Farriery, shoeing, &c., 100 



Expenses of greyhounds purchased, and at walks, . . 100 



Casualties, 200 



£1935 



" If you do not attend to the kennel department 

 yourself,*" adds the Colonel, " but keep a huntsman, 

 the expense will be at least ^^^SOO more.'' 



The only remark we have to offer on the forego- 

 ins: calculations is, that the author does not allow 

 a sufficient number of hounds for the several days' 

 ]mnting in the week. For example, we venture to 

 say, that no country could be hunted four times a 

 week with fifty couples of hounds ; at all events, 

 fifty couples of hounds equal to that work are very 

 rarely to be found. We agree with the writer, 

 that either four times a week, or even twice, are 

 preferable to three, for keeping hounds in regular 

 work, when sound. But on the subject of expenses 

 we have a word or two more to say. Knowing, as 

 we do, that they generally, we believe we may add 

 always, exceed the calculations made by Colonel 

 Cook, and in some instances by double, we consider 

 it rather inconceivable that, in the present depressed 

 state of land property, either noblemen or private 

 gentlemen should of tliemselves be expected or per- 

 mitted to bear all the charge of hunting a country. 



