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best quality you cannot have them in con- 

 dition. If there is any truth in the report 

 of flour having been adulterated with bones, 

 plaister of Paris, &c, is it not natural to 

 suppose that oatmeal also may have it's 

 share of these pernicious ingredients ? You 

 ought therefore to be very particular in 

 getting good meal ; the Irish is the best, and 

 the most likely to be genuine. 



It is quite certain a hound too high in 

 condition cannot run a burst, neither can 

 a poor half-starved one kill an afternoon 

 Fox ; a hound therefore cannot be consi- 

 dered as fit to be brought out if he is either 

 too high or too low. I like to see their ribs, 

 but their loins should be well filled up, 

 and they should be hollow in their flanks : 

 he that is full in the flanks is sure to be fat 

 in the inside, and consequently not fit for 

 work. The feeding of hounds, and the 

 bringing them to cover able to run a burst, 

 or kill an afternoon Fox, is not altogether 



