^^O THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING^ 



It is a bad custom to use hounds to the boiling-house ; 

 jt is apt to make them nice, and may prevent them from 

 ever eating the kennel meat. What they have should 

 always be given them in the feeding-yard j and for the 

 same reason, though it be flesh, it should have some meal 

 mixed with it. 



If your hounds be low in flesh, and have far to go to 

 cover, they may all have a little thm lap again in the 

 evening; but this should never be done if you hunt early*. 

 Hounds, 1 think, should be sharp-set before hunting : 

 they run the better for it-f-. 



up with the remainder, for such hounds as are poor, who are then draft, 

 ed off into another kennel, and let in to feed all together. When the 

 flesh is all eaten, thie pack are again let in, and are by this means cheated 

 into a second appetite. At three o'clock, those that are to hunt the next 

 day are drafted into the hunting-kennel ; they are then let into the feeding- 

 yard, where a small quantity of oatmeal (about three buckets) is prepared 

 for them, mixed up thick. Such as are tender, or bad feeders, have a 

 handful of boiled flesh given to them afterwards. When they are not to 

 ■bunt the next day, they are fed once only, at eleven o'clock. 



* Hounds that are tender feeders cannot be fed too late, or with meat 

 jtoo good. 



t Vide note, page *49. 



