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cilable with a vigorous state of body. This system 

 is also quite the reverse of economical. A larger 

 body of hounds is kept at an unnecessary expense, 

 and fed so badly that they are unequal to hunt 

 more than two (if so manjO days in the week ; 

 whereas, a third less in number, if properly fed, 

 would not only do more work, but do it in far su- 

 perior style. 



In the generality of kennels it is too much the 

 practice to take all fish that comes to the net, or 

 all horses, dead or alive, diseased or starved, which 

 are brought for hounds, the skins being the hunts- 

 man's perquisites. The soup made from a horse 

 that has died of disease must be very heating, and 

 something more — totally unfit for fox-hounds ; and 

 I have occasionally been nearly knocked down by 

 the stench arising from some boiling houses. This 

 nuisance shoidd not be tolerated in any well-con- 

 ducted establishment, where a large paddock ought 

 to be appropriated to the horses intended for the 

 kennel, in which they might be kept and fed some 

 few weeks before being killed. This plan was 

 adopted by the late Lord Ducie (than whom a 

 better judge of hounds or hunting never existed), 

 and no establishment is complete without it. 

 There can be no objection to horses which have 

 been killed from accidents ; but the flesh of those 



