326 eOURSINft, ETC. 



on the ground, take each dog and slip hi* 

 tail two or three times through your hand, 

 then walk them about for a quarter of an 

 hour, and when you get them home, wash 

 their feet with butter and beer, then kennel 

 them ; half an hour after feed them. With 

 this exercise, and coursing them twice or 

 thrice a week with hares, they will be as fit, 

 with respect to feeding and training, as any 

 dogs in the kingdom. 



As to the first, he ought to be coursed two 

 or three times a week, in such manner that 

 you usually reward him with blood, which 

 will animate and encourage him to prosecute 

 bis game ; but be not unmindful to give the 

 hare all just and lawful advantage, so that 

 she may stand long before the greyhound, 

 whereby he may shew his strength and skill 

 before he reaps the benefit of his labour. If 

 he kills, suffer him not to break the hare, 

 but take her from him, and having cleansed 

 his chaps from the wool of the hare, then 

 give him the liver, lights, and heart, and so 



