CONTENTS. XHl 



differ — Fitness essential to beauty — How Sportsmen may he 

 pf service to tired Hounds — Of long days^ the disadvantage 

 — The use — Why a Fox-hound should be above his work — 

 Much encouragement to Hounds on bad scenting days, objeded 

 to — Of Hounds that run false. 



LETTER XXII. Pag€ 307. 



Blood necessary to a pack of Fox-hounds — The likeliest method 

 to procure it — Of accidents that haj>pen in Fox-hunting — Of 

 the proper time to leave off Fox-hunting — A zuanton destruc- 

 tion of Foxes censured — Inequality of scent unfavourable to 

 Hounds — An extraordinary charaBer of a Huntsman, 



LETTER XXIII. Pa2;e ^26. 



Bag- Foxes : some objections to them — A Fox-court recommended 

 — DireBions how Cubs should be treated — Some caution ne- 

 cessary in buying Foxes — Of digging Foxes — Badgers objeEled 

 to — A method to stink an earth — How Badgers may be 

 caught — Of Terriers — Of destroying Foxes — A remarkable 

 instance of the lex talionis. 



LETTER XXIV. Page 342. 



Subject concluded — Some observations concerning the managc- 

 ment of a Hunter — Remarks upon Shoeing — Summer Hunt- 



