THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. ^t 



^ey have had a hard day, it may be as well to 

 leave fome meat there for them. 



I have inquired of my feeder, who is a good 

 one, (and has had more experience in thefe mat- 

 ters than any one you perhaps may get) how he 

 snixes up his meat. He teljs me, that in his opi- 

 nion, oatmeal and barley mixed, an equal quan- 

 tity of each, make the beil meat for hounds. 

 The oatmeal he boils for half an hour, and then 

 puts out the fire, puts the barley into the copper, 

 and mixes both together. I afked him why he 

 boiled one and not the other— he told me, boil- 

 ing, vv^hich made oatmeal thick, made barley 

 thin ; and that Vv'hen you feed with barley only, 

 it fhould not be put into the copper, but be 

 fcalded with the liquor, and mixed up in a buc- 

 ket. I find there is in my kennel a large tub on 

 purpofe, which contains about half a hogfhead. 



You little think, perhaps, how difficult it is to 

 be a good kennel huntfman, nor can you, as 

 yet, know the nicety that is required to feed 

 hounds properly. You are not aware that fome 

 hounds will hunt befl: when fed late; others, 

 when fed early: that fome mould have but little; 

 that others cannot have too much. However, if 

 5^our huntfman obferve the rules I have here laid 

 down, his hounds will not do much amifs; but 

 ihould you at any time wifh to rencherir upon the 

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