CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Introductory Observations. — Ancient British Sports- 

 men, the Saxons, the Danes, the Normans. — Ancient 

 Method of Hunting. — Sjiortsmen of the Old and 

 Modern Schools 1 — 25. 



CHAPTER II. 



Of Forming and Building the Kennel. — Its Courts, 

 Lodging Rooms, Boiling Houses, 8fc. . 26 — 32. 



CHAPTER III. 



Extraordinary Sliced of Fox Hounds. — Of the Origin 

 of Hounds. — The Talbot or Blood Hound, the Stag 

 Hound, the Southern Hound, the Beagle, the Fox 

 Hound. — The Olfactory Organs of the Hound. — 

 Of the Size, Colour, and Breeding of Hounds, ^-c. 



33—53. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Diseases (f Hounds and Methods of Cure. 54 — 112. 



