THOUGHTS UPON" HUNTING. «>4.^ 



any account, admit the least deviation from it. If he sees 

 ^ou exadt, he will be so himself. This is a very essentiaJ. 

 part of his business. The boiling for the hounds, 

 mixing of the meat, and getting it ready for them at 

 proper hours, your huntsman will of course take care of ^ 

 nor is it ever likely to be forgotten. I must caution 

 you not to let your dogs eat their meat too hot j I have 

 known it attended with bad consequences ; you should also 

 order it to be mixed up ^ thick as possible. When the 

 feeder has cleaned his kennel in the morning, and pre- 

 pared his meat, it is usual for him, on hunting days (in an 

 establishment like yours), to exercise the horses of the 

 huntsman and whipper-in ; and, in many stables, it is also 

 the feeder who looks after the huntsman's horse, when he 

 comes in from hunting; whilst the huntsman feeds the 

 hounds. When the hounds are not out, the huntsman 

 and whipper-in, of course, will exercise their own horses j 

 and, that day, the feeder has little else to mind but the 

 cleaning of his kennel. Every possible contrivance has been 

 attended to in the plan that I sent you, to make that part 

 of his work easy -, all the courts, except the grass-court, 

 being bricked and sloped on purpose. There is also 



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