41 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



refl:, they fhould be fed again — fuch hounds can- 

 not be led too often. If any in the pack be too 

 fat, they fliouM be drafted off, and not fafFered 

 lo liU themfelves. The others flionld cat what 

 lliey will of the meat. The days my hounds have 

 greens or fulphur, they generally are let in all 

 together ; and fuch as require jlejh, have it given 

 to them afterwards. Having a good kennel- 

 huntfman, it is not often that I take this trouble; 

 yet I fcldom go into my kennel, but I indulge 

 ynyfelf in the pleafure of feeing food given to fuch 

 liounds, as appear to me to be in want of it. I 

 have been told that in one kennel in particular, 

 the hounds are under fuch excellent management, 

 that they conftantly are fed with the door of the 

 feeding-yard open ; and the rough nature of the 

 fox-hound is changed into fo much politenefs, 

 that he waits at the door, till he is invited in ; and 

 what perhaps is not lefs extraordinary, he comes 

 put again, wlicthcr he has fatisfied his hunger or 

 not, the moment he is deiircd — -The cffedl of difr 

 eipline. However, as this is not abfolutely ne- 

 ceflliry,' and hounds may be good without it ; anc| 

 as I well know your other amufcments will not 

 permit you to attend to fo much manoeuvring, I 

 would by no means v.ifn you to give fuch power 

 to your huntfman. The bufinefs would be injudi- 

 cioufiy done, and mo ft probably would not anfwer 

 your expectations — The hound would be tor- 

 itnented nml-a-pro^os ; — an animal fo little deferv- 



