CHAPTER XVI 



Hare-hunting continued. — Requisites for the Kennel. — Good Food, 

 cheap Food. — Difficulty of forming a Pack of Harriers from Drafts. — 

 A veracious Account of how Squire Bragg purchased a Pack of dead 

 Harriers for Five Hundred Pounds. — How to form a Pack when you 

 cannot buy one. — A Story about the ruling Passion, which must be 

 continued in the next Chapter. 



It may be as well to describe the apparatus and utensils 

 necessary for the kennel, which 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 and hinges to cover over the meal, or 

 let fall at the sides as may be required, the edges tipped 

 with tin plate, to prevent rats and mice gnawing through 

 them ; a stirrer made like a strainer, to break up the 

 meal and broth together, with a couple of prongs, one 

 strong enough to raise a quarter of flesh, the other of 

 lighter make, to shake up the Utter ; a pole-axe and knife, 

 with buckets, besoms, and a mop. There should be also 

 in each kennel or court a small cast-iron or stone trough 

 raised about sixteen inches above the pavement, to 

 contain fresh spring water for the hounds to drink from, 

 with wooden benches made of oak or deal spars for them 



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