154 FEEDING FOX-HOUNDS. 



CHAPTER X. 



On Feeding Fox-hounds. — A Pate de Perigueux. — Some Re- 

 marks on Love and Horseflesh. —Marriages in France 

 during the Reign of Terror. — Once a Huntsman always a 

 Huntsman. — A Time for all Things. — How the Hunting 

 Man's Pleasure may profit his Neighbour. — The Inevitable 

 Hour. 



The saying is not an uncommon one, that 

 " anything is good enough for dogs." That is 

 not the case, however, with fox-hounds, which re- 

 quire the best of food to keep them in condition 

 during the hunting season. The best old oat- 

 meal, after a fair trial of all other farinaceous food, 

 has been found to be most productive of strength 

 and muscle to endure fatigue, with the addition of 

 horse-flesh ; and although the latter may sound 

 rather disgusting to ears polite, yet the flesh of 

 a fat horse, without disease, is quite as nutritious 

 and fit for food, or more so than that of many 

 bullocks which are slaughtered for the use of 



