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take all chances of finding early or late, 

 about ten o'clock is the hour I should prefer. 

 In feeding your hounds after hunting, that 

 must depend on circumstances ; but in the 

 general way I should say feed them imme- 

 diately on their return to the kennel ; and 

 if after a hard day that happens to be late, 

 allow them to eat what they please. And 

 again, the last thing before you go to bed, 

 endeavour to coax the bad feeders. It is a 

 good plan to wash their feet in warm liquor 

 when they return from hunting — what the 

 French call giving them a bain de pie ; yet 

 some people think it makes their feet 

 tender. 



I should advise you in the hunting sea- 

 son, when the frost sets in, to give your 

 hounds some cooling physic, to lower their 

 food, and the more they are taken out on 

 the turnpike road, the better. To my 

 horses also, at that time, I gave a dose of 

 physic each, taking care to give it only to a 



