INDEX. 



365 



CUN 



Cunard, Sir Bache, 

 hunted by, 228 



country 



FAR 



his account of the Duke 

 Grafton's pack, 259 



of 



DANES, game laws introduced 

 by, 8 



Daventry, 237 



Deer, red, cunning and strata- 

 gems of, 38, 49 ; colour of, 39 ; 

 growth of horns as determin- 

 ing age, ib. ; designated by his 

 points, z$.; examples of abnor- 

 mal number of points, 40 ; re- 

 production of horn, ib. ; time 

 for hunting, 41 ; 'harbouring,' 

 ib. ; difficulty of procuring 

 hounds for hunting, 47 ; scent, 

 49; taking soil, ib. ; running 

 to herd, ib. ; a hunt of, at Ex- 

 moor, 55 ; destructive pro- 

 pensity of, 6 1 



Derby, twelfth Earl of, stag- 

 hounds of, 32 



Devonshire, North, stag-hunting 

 renown of, 32 



Distemper in hounds, 127 ; 

 effect of rounding ears in, 



'Si 



Dracek, Baronne de, a celebrated 

 French huntress, 15 



Drains, how to construct, for 

 foxes, 156 ; for otters, 302 



Drake family of huntsmen, 251 



Draper, Diana, 16 



Draper, William, a Yorkshire 

 fox-hunter, 16 



Drawing for hares, 79 ; for foxes, 

 136 ; for otters, 313 



' Druid ' on cross-breeding for 

 hunters, 170; instance of pro- 

 phetic instinct in a horse re- 

 lated by, 206 note ; his de- 

 scription of Dick Knight, 234 ; 



EAR cropping of hunters, 108; 

 rounding of puppies, 131 



Earth, running to, 68 



Earth-stopper, duties of an, 151 



Earths, artificial fox, how to 

 construct, 156 



Edward the Confessor, a patron 

 of the chase, 9 



Edward III. accompanied by a 

 hunting establishment in his 

 wars, 10 ; endeavour of, to 

 improve the breed of horses, 

 161 



Elizabeth, Queen, a notable 

 huntress, 13 ; stag-hunting in 

 the reign of, 36 



1 Emblem,' a famous steeple- 

 chaser of bad shape, 173 



England and Wales, list of 

 hounds in, stag, 321 ; fox, 

 322 ; hare, 335 ; beagle, 343 



Epping hunt, origin of, 1 7 



Erme, the, an otter river, 307 



' Essay on Hunting,' anonymous, 

 4, 19 



Essex, curious hunting establish- 

 ment in, 30 



Essex, East, kennels, plan of, 1 18 



Exmoor, antiquity of, as a royal 

 hunting-ground, 32 ; charm 

 of stag-hunting on the, 37 ; 

 trying nature of, to hounds, 

 48 ; account of a stag-hunt 

 with Arthur Heal at, 55 



FAIRS, horse, 174 ; purchasing 



hunters at, 175 

 Farmers, compensation to, 4 



