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CHAPTER XVI. 



Hare-huDting continued. — Requisites for the Kennel. — Good 

 Food, cheap Food, — Difficulty of forming a Pack of Har- 

 riers from Drafts. — A veracious Account of how Squire 

 Bragg purchased a Pack of dead Harriers for Five Hun- 

 dred Pounds. — How to form a Pack when you cannot buy 

 one. — A Story about the ruhng Passion, which must be 

 continued in the next Chapter. 



It may be as well to describe the apparatus and 

 utensils necessary for the kennel, wliich consist 

 of two small boilers of cast-iron — -one for meal, the 

 other for flesh ; a chopping trough, with a thick 

 elm or oak bottom ; a dipper or small bucket 

 placed at the end of a long wooden handle, to dip 

 out the boiled meat and broth ; an iron-headed 

 strainer made in the shape of a half moon, with 

 thin bars of iron, to scrape all the small bones 

 from the bottom of the flesh copper ; and a 

 chopper, with a wooden handle made in the shape 

 of a T ; two wooden feeding troughs, with flaps 



