Horses and hounds : a practical treatise on their management / by "Scrutator" [pseud.] To which is added "Taming of wild horses." By J.S. Rarey.

  • Horlock, Knightley William, 1802-1882.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Horses and hounds : a practical treatise on their management / by "Scrutator" [pseud.] To which is added "Taming of wild horses." By J.S. Rarey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the unwashed urchins saluted Jack’s ears, such as “E-aw, e-aw, who hunted the donkey!” “Come,” says Jack, “drop that suit, my fine fellows, or I’ll drop my double thong upon some of ye, and make ye sing a different tune.” Misfortunes will happen in the best regulated families some- times. Idleness is the parent of vice, and when the young hounds are over the distemper, they cannot have too much air and exercise; but if, as I have said above, they are walked out by the feeder every day, with an assistant and boy, they wont care much about cur dogs or donkeys, and save Jack’s whipcord as well. When the hunting is over, the huntsman will have nothing to do but attend to the kennel. The old hounds will be glad of a little rest from their labours of the past season, and his attention may be directed almost exclusively to the young hounds. Let him keep them out half the day, if possible, early and late, with the horses in the morning, and walk them out several times during the day. The summer is a more busy time with a good huntsman than the winter, and he will require three hacks or ponies, for himself and assistants, to give the hounds proper exercise. CHAPTER XIV. Necessity of judicious breeding Choice of bitches-Fine symmetry of the iox-hound—Popular mistakes of the present day—Mr. Ward’s skill in hnnf ln^~Time of 1Curious variations in the generations of choosing good sires—Difference between “fast” and tien ^l hoi‘nds-Mfinagernent and feeding of the brood bitches-Selcc- tnn and treatment of the whelps—Diet and medicine for puppies—Pre- “rStof°2ekSt br°Ug Xt UP! “ at -^s-Names should be given SvirmU voung 0}lnd Proper habits in a feeder exemplified— Uie lungs. remedies for> the distempers and for inflammation of I6slSuidnrPP0f the P?ck Wil1 depend T1P°n judicious breed- y°iTr not makil'g use of any hounds seasons at W in^i! ?fT lave, bee.n fairly tried, for two will be develonorl i 11e,?c ^ 5.by tins tune their real characters afterwards * ’ nd ^ iere 1S n°t much risk of their altering symmetrv ^'or ti?U kre-ci^ p'om should possess certain points of lS in’their fl/ iJ111 ]10t- Induce tine Progeny. Without & eir flanks and width over their loins, they will not