2^74 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



day, nevertheleis, once or tvAce in a fcaibn, is of 

 ufe to a huntfman ; it flu 

 Houtnefs of his hounds. 



ufe to a huntfman ; it fliews the real jjoodnefs ancJ 



When long days happen to hounds that are 

 low in fiefh, nothing will get them up again fa 

 efFe6lually as reft; it is for this reafon hounds that 

 are kept conftantly hunted ought always to be, as 

 fportfmen call it, ahoi-e their ivoj-k. If your 

 hounds, either from accident or inattention, Ihould 

 ever be in the low condition here alluded to, be 

 not impatient to get them out of it ; fhould you 

 feed them high w'lihflejli, the' mange, moft pro- 

 bably, would be the immediate eonfequencc of 

 it : it is reft and wholelbme meat that will re- 

 cover them beft. It will lurprife you to fee how 

 fpon a dog becomes cither fat or lean ; a little pa- 

 tience, therefore, and fome attention, will always 

 enable you to get your hounds into proper con- 

 dition ; and I am certi^in, that you can receive 

 no pleafure in hunting with them, if they be 

 not. 



I forgot. In my letter upon the feeding of 

 hounds, to obferve that fuch hounds as have the 

 mange actually upon them, or only a tendency 

 towards it, fhould be fed feparately from the reft. 

 They Ihould have no fiefli ; their meat fliould be 

 mixed up rather thin than tliick; and they fhould 



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