FEEDING, MANAGEMENT, TRAINING, &C. 667 
when following her master through a grass park near Gilmer- 
ton, it happened that she started a hare. During the pur¬ 
suit her master suddenly lost sight of her, and in a few days 
she was considered either killed or lost. Six weeks after¬ 
wards, a person happening to look down the shaft of an old 
coal-pit, was surprised by hearing a dog howling. He im¬ 
mediately returned to the village, and having procured a 
hand-basket, let it down by a rope into the shaft; the dog 
instantly leapt into it, and on being brought to the surface, 
it turned out to be Gipsy, the lost terrier bitch of my friend, 
worn to perfect skin and bone. How she had existed in this 
subterranean abode it is impossible to telL 
Staghounds, foxhounds, harriers, and beagles, are gene¬ 
rally fed on oatmeal; and the older it is the better, so that it 
is not fusty. Store sufficient for twelve or eighteen months’ 
consumption ought, therefore, always to be kept by those 
who have a pack. The meal should be well dried and 
broken into grits, but not too fine. It is best kept in bins 
in a granary, well trodden down. Some persons are in the 
habit of using barleymeal, but it is not nearly so nutritious 
as the former. Others are of opinion that oatmeal and 
barleymeal, in equal proportions, form a preferable food 
But nothing is better than oatmeal-porridge, with the addi¬ 
tion of a little milk, and occasionally the kitchen-offal, such 
as remnants of butchers’ meat, broth, and soups, the raspings 
and refuse of bakers’ shops, or hard, coarse, sea-biscuit, well 
soaked and boiled with bullocks’ liver or horse-flesh. Well- 
boiled greens are an excellent addition to the food of all 
dogs, and may be given twice a week ; but this ought to be 
discontinued during the shooting season with pointers, set¬ 
ters, cockers, and greyhounds ; and also during the hunting- 
season with fox-hounds, harriers, and beagles, as they are 
apt to render the bowels too open for hard work. The 
