THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 45 



It Is a bad cuflom to ule hounds to the l>oili}i(r- 

 houle; it is apt to make them nice, and may- 

 prevent them from ever eating the kennel-mcat- 

 What they have, ihould always be given them ia 

 the feeding-yard, and for the fame reafon, though 

 it be fiefhj it llioukl have fomc meal mixed with 

 it. 



If your hounds be low in flefh, and have far to 

 go to cover, they may all have a little thin lap 

 again in the evening; but this fhould never be 

 done if you hunt early.* Hounds, I think, 

 fhould be fharp-fet before hunting; they run the 

 better for it.-j^ 



If many of your hounds, after long Ted, 

 ihould be too l^it, J by feeding them for a day or 

 two on thinner meat than you give the others, it 

 will be found, I believe, to anfwer better than 

 the ufual method of giving them the fame meat, 

 and ftinting them in the quantity of it. 



* Hounds that are tender feeders cannot be fed too late, or 

 with meat too good. 



f Vid. Note, page 44. 



X Hounds that reft, fhould not be fuffered to become fat. — ■ 

 It would be accounting very badly for the fatnefs of a hound, 

 to fay he is fat, becaufe he has not worked lately, fmce he 

 ought to have been kept lower on that account. 



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