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the copper, and mixes both well together. I 

 asked him why he boiled one and not the other: 

 he told me boiling, which made oatmeal thick, 

 made barley thin ; and that, when you feed 

 with barley only, it should not be put into the 

 copper, but be scalded with the liquor, and 

 mixed up in a bucket. I find- there is in my 

 kennel a large tub on purpose, which contains 

 about half a hogshead. 



You little think, perhaps, how difficult it is 

 to be a good kennel-huntsman, nor can you as 

 yet know the nicety that is required in feeding 

 hounds properly. You are not aware that some 

 hounds will hunt best when fed late ; others 

 when fed early : — that some should have but 

 little ; that others cannot have too much : how- 

 ever, if your huntsman observes the rules I have 

 here laid down, his hounds will not do much 

 amiss : but should you at any time wish to ren- 

 cherir upon the matter, and feed each particular 

 hound so as to make the most of him, you must 

 learn it of a gentleman in Leicestershire, to 

 whom the noble science of fox-hunting is more 

 beholden than to any other. I shall myself say 

 nothing further on the subject ; for as your 

 huntsman will not have the sense of the gentle- 

 man I allude to there, nor you perhaps his pa- 



