THOUGHTS UPON HUNTHslG* »CS 



Fer giving it in balls*. It is more easy to give in this 

 manner the quantity that he may want, and you are more 

 certain that he takes it. In many kennels they also bleed 

 them twice a year ; and some people think that it prevents 

 madness. The anointing of hounds, or dressing them, as 

 huntsmen call it, makes them fine in their coats : it may 

 be done twice a year, or oftener, if you find it necessary; 

 As I shall hereafter have occasion to write on the diseases 

 of houndsj and their cures, I will send you at the same 

 time a receipt for this purpose. During the summer 

 months, when my hounds do not hunt, they have seldom 

 any flesh allowed them, and are kept low, contrary, I be- 

 lieve, to the usual praftice of most kennels, where mangey 

 hounds, in summer, are but too often seen. Huntsmen 

 sometimes content themselves with checking this disorder,, 

 when with less trouble, perhaps, they might prevent it. A 

 regular course of whey and vegetables, during the hot 

 months, must certainly be wholesome, and is, without 

 doubt, the cause that a mangey hound is an unusual sight 

 in my kennel. Every Monday and Friday my hounds go 



* One pound of antimony, four ounces of sulphur, and syrup of buck- 

 thorn q. s. to give it the consistency of a balU Each ball weighs about 

 seven drachms. 



