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CHAPTER IX. 



Use of the Warm Bath for Hounds. — The Daily Constitu- 

 tional. — Smooth Coats and Rough Coats. — Qualities essen- 

 tial to a Good Huntsman. — When the Horn should be used. 

 — Beckford on Huntsmen and Whippers-in. — Order of 

 Precedence in going to Covert. — Kennel Management. — 

 Pen and Ink Portraits. — Deer-hunting Extraordinary. 



No animal is more susceptible of cold, or more 

 liable to rheumatic attacks, than the dog ; and 

 although I never had recourse to artificial heat 

 from flues in the kennel, the use of them, in mo- 

 deration, cannot, I think, fail to be beneficial in 

 very cold weather, particularly if the lodging rooms 

 are damp ; but after a fair trial of the warm bath 

 recommended by Mr. Delme Radcliffe, and adopted 

 by many masters of fox hounds a few years since, 

 its use was discontinued from a conviction of 

 the impracticability of carrying the process out to a 

 beneficial effect. A warm bath, with thorough 

 dry rubbing afterwards, is one of the greatest re- 



