5* THOUGHTS UPON HUI^TING, 



might prevent it. A regular courfe of wliey and 

 vegetables during the hot months mui\, certainl)^ 

 be wholcfomc, and is, without doubt, the caufe 

 that a mangy hound is an anufnal light in m 

 kennel. Every Monday and Friday my bounds 

 go for whey till the hunting feafon begins ; arc 

 kept out feveral hours, and arc often made ta 

 J Vim tln'ough rivers during the hot weather. 

 After the laft phylic, and before they begin to 

 hunt, they are exerrifed on the turnpike road, to 

 harden their feet, which are waihed with ftrong 

 brine, as foon as they come in. Little ftraw is 

 neceflliry during the fummer; but when they 

 hunt they cannot have too much, or have it 

 changed too often. In many kennels they do not 

 boil for the hounds in fummer, but give them 

 meal only; in mine it is alwaj^s boiled; but with 

 this diiference, that it is mixed up thin, infiead 

 of thick. Many give fpurge-laurel in ftuTimcr, 

 boiled up in their meat; as I never ufe it, I can- 

 not recommend it. The phytic I give is two 

 pounds of fulphur, one pound of antimony, and 

 a pint and a half of fyrup of buckthorn, for 

 about forty couple of hounds.* In the winter 

 fealbn, let your hounds be fliut up warm at 

 night. If any hounds, after hunting, be miffing, 

 the ftraw-houfc door fhould be left open; and if 



* Vide page 49, where it is recommended that fuch hounds 

 as require phytic fliould be phyfacked feparately. 



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