150 SYSTEM OF KENNEL AND 



would not be equal to work. Our general practice 

 was, to divide the daily allowance of the whole 

 pack into two meals, never giving any except the 

 poorest feeders the chance of a bellyful at one 

 single meal ; and by adopting this plan, we not 

 only found our hounds could undergo the most 

 severe work, but that they lived to a greater age 

 than those in other kennels ; and we were told, a 

 short time ago, by a master of hounds who has 

 handled the horn some ten years, that he had 

 adopted our plan from his commencement as hunts- 

 man, and had continued it ever since with the most 

 satisfactory results. 



