FIRST-HAND BITS OF STABLE LORE 



run, and at no other time. Broths and soups 

 may be made of various odds and ends of cheap 

 and refuse meats, and at least once a week they 

 should be " drawn " off into a yard two or three 

 couples at a time, and given some good big bones 

 to gnaw at, polish their teeth with, and growl 

 over. Always have some one with them at these 

 times, for the best of bench bed- fellows will fall out 

 over a bone, and in a moment the whole lot will 

 be at it. And never go among hounds without 

 a good lashed crop ; you never can tell, and 

 when one gets nasty the others sometimes back 

 him up — trousers are expensive, and it 's bother- 

 some to eat meals from the mantel-shelf. Stale 

 bread, etc., may be bought at any baker's very 

 cheap, about fifty cents a sugar (not flour) bar- 

 rel full, and, either broken up and sopped in 

 broth, or fed occasionally in large pieces, dry, it 

 makes an excellent food. Oatmeal " puddings " 

 may be used in cold weather, but it is a very 

 heating food and sure to make skin trouble with 

 (man or) hounds if fed regularly and liberally. 

 Cornmeal pudding, or a rough sort of corn bread, 

 made and baked in large tins, is excellent, as is 

 rye mush sometimes, while occasionally a regular 

 vegetable soup, or broth, affords a welcome 



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