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CHAPTER V. 



" My hounds sball wake 

 1'be lazy morn, and glad tL' horizon round." 



Chase. 



COMMENCEMENT OF THE I1U^TING SEASON.— YOUNG HOUNDS BROUGHT INTO 



THE KENNEL. ROUNDING PUPPIES AT THEIR QUARTERS. THE FIRSt 



AND SECOND DRAFT. — EXTENSIVE BREEDERS OF HOUNDS. — JACKALL 

 HUNTING IN INDIA. — ANECDOTE OF HOUNDS RUNNING A PONY, ALSO 



RUNNING CROWS AND A DONKEY. — TRAILED SCENTS. CRANe's TRIAL OF 



YOUNG HOUNDS. — AN IRISH CHALLENGE. JOYS OF CUB-HUNTING. — 



EARLY REMINISCENCES.— MY FIRST BRUSH. — THE WARWICKSHIRE 



HOUNDS DUKE OF BEAUFORT'S NECTAR ANECDOTE OF THE STEADINESS 



OF THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. — ENTERING PUPPIES TO HARE IN THE 

 SPRING. — WM. SHAW's OPINION. — OLD WILL CARTER. — MR. MEYNELL'S 



SYSTEM. PHYSIC AND DRESSING.— THE FLOORS SHOULD BE STRAWED 



DURING THE LAST OPERATION. — EXERCISE.— TURNED DOWN FOXES BAD. 



LATE SEASONS AND HARVEST IN THE NORTH.— A DOG RUN AND KILLED 



BY LORD MIDDLETOn's HOUNDS. — ANECDOTE OF A FOX IN A CHIMNEY. — 

 MR. STUBBS.— EXTRAORDINARY RUN IN CUB-HUNTING. 



The opening of this chapter shall be the commence- 

 ment of a new season, and in it I will endeavour to 

 lead my reader through the whole routine of the 

 economy of the hunting kennel ; and although topics 

 may be introduced, and incidents recorded, which 

 may at first sight appear extraneous and heavy, still 

 they will be found to be so interwoven with the main 

 object, that they are absolutely necessary and con- 

 venient to carry on the design, and that, like a firm 

 building, the cavities must be filled up with such 

 stones and mortar as are proper and in keeping with 



