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send a whipper-in on before, tliat the meat may 

 be got ready against they come, and they are fed 

 immediately ; and having filled their bellies, 

 they are naturally inclined to rest. If they 

 have had a severe day, they are fed again some 

 hours after.* As to the other method above 

 mentioned, it may be more convenient, perhaps, 

 to have the hounds all together : but I cannot 

 think it necessary, for the reason that is given ; 

 and I should apprehend a parcel of idle hounds 

 shut up amongst such as are tired and inclined 

 to rest, would disturb them more than all their 

 licking would make them amends for. When 

 you feed them twice, they had better be put all 

 together after the second feeding than the first. 

 Every day when hounds come in from hunt- 

 ing, they should be carefully looked over, and 

 invalids immediately taken care of. -f* Such as 



* My hounds are generally fed twice on the days they 

 hunt. Some will feed better the second time than the first ; 

 besides, the turning them out of the lodging-house refreshes 

 them; the}-^ stretch their limbs, empty their bodies ; and as 

 during this time their kennel is cleaned out, and litter shaken 

 up, they settle themselves better on the benches afterwards. 



t Hounds that come home lame should not be taken out 

 the next hunting day, since they may appear sound without 

 being so. At the beginning uf the season, the eyes ot 

 hounds are frequently injured : such hounds should not be 

 hunted, and, if their eyes continue weak, they should lose 

 a little blood. 



