THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. -'--i 



If many of your hounds, after long rest, should be too 

 fat*, feeding them for a day or two on thinner meat 

 than you give the others, will be found, I believe, to 

 answer better than the usual method of giving them the 

 same meat, and stinting thein tn the quantity of it. 



If your hounds be not walked out, they should be turned 

 into the grass-court to empty themselves, after they have 

 been fed : it will contribute not a little to the cleanliness of 

 the kennel. 



1 HAVE heard, that it is a custom in some kennels to 

 shut up the hounds for a couple of hours after they come 

 in from hunting, before they are fed ; and that other 

 bounds are shut up with them, to lick them clean f-. My 

 usual way is to send in a whipper-in before them, that 

 the meat may be got ready against they come, and they 

 are fed immediately : having filled their bellies, they are 



* Hounds that rest should not be suffered to become fat. It would be 

 accounting very badly for the fatness of a hound, to say, "He is fat because 

 he has not worked lately ;" since he ought to have been kept lower on 

 that account. 



+ If hounds be shut up as soon as they come in from hunting, they will 

 not readily leave the benches afterwards ; for if they be much fatigued, 

 they will prefer rest to food. 



