180 THE TRINITY FOOT BEAGLES 



Very few servcants will go on doing their best work if those who 

 employ them let things slide. Servants are all human. — E. C. K. 



Bob can save a lot of expense on Key's bill by doing all the 

 limewashing and painting himself 



In summer of 1896 hounds were walked by different people, and 

 Bob was given notice, with an agreement that he could come back if 

 he liked next hunting season. Bob now lodges at Smith's next to 

 Crake's pub. on the Histon Road, as Mrs. Warde is dead. — K. Walker. 



In other places in the book poor Bob's weekly accounts are 

 sharply criticised as to writing and spelling, but D. G. Hoare testified 

 vioa voce to his complete honesty. His wages has been "riz" more 

 than once since Milne's time, and he is now married and has his 

 own house. In my time hounds were always w^alked in the summer, 

 and Bob got his Kving elsewhere, minding a cricket ground, I believe. 

 Hounds must have come up in divers degrees of condition,^ and 

 the system, the last reKc of trencher feeding, has been definitely 

 abandoned. This brings us naturally to the notes on hound feeding, 

 general management, and kennel economy. 



Food 



Under this head the notes are very full, and need little 

 or no comment. As regards summer feeding, I may say that one 

 summer I had Ransome and Ranter (mother and son), and the 

 next season two couple of hounds whose names do not come back 

 to me even on reading the list. I was told to feed them on Indian 

 meal porridge and no meat, and I did as I was told. In the latter 

 part of the Long I gave them plenty of exercise on horseback, and 

 was very much complimented on their condition. And one day when 

 I was out I met Griffiths, then huntsman of the North Herefordshire, 

 who admired them much, to my great satisfaction, as G. was a fine 

 huntsman. Perhaps I was being " buttered," but I was very proud 

 of my charges at the time. — F. C. K. 



Food may be classified as meal, biscuits, meat, and greens, and 

 the following show clearly the best and most economical food-stuffs. 



1 See Chapter \l. 



