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that they will get a little fresher. Now then let us 

 see your food." 



The baked barley-bread (as far as barle^^-meal is 

 concerned) was excellent ; but, alas ! there was no 

 flesh ; and we in England well know that ivithout a 

 certain quantity of animal food, no Jiound can do his 

 duty. We know, too, that to expect to put hounds 

 in condition on barley -meal, cook it in any way you 

 will, is utterly impossible ; and a man might just as 

 well expect to keep his canary bird in feather and 

 song on roast beef and plum-pudding as a hound in 

 hunting trim on such " perilous stuff." Barley-meal 

 to a hound is heating and in every way unhealthy, 

 and in utter antagonism to the support of his consti- 

 tution. 



Having collected any drugs that were at hand and 

 directed others to be sent for, I pronounced a decided 

 opinion that, though the food was unhealthy and im- 

 possible to condition, it nevertheless, to my mind^ 

 did not fully account for the wasted and miserable 

 state of the hounds ; and I prayed Jules d'Anchald 

 to investigate what else was occasionally mixed up 

 with the barley-bread ; for I had seen symptoms, 

 by bits of vegetables, of dish-water from the scullery 

 and kitchen of the chateau. Jules d'Anchald, with 

 a quickness at which in him I was no way surprised, 



