WORMING A DOG. This was supposed to be a preventive to the power of a mad dog's bite. It was a superstition promulgated in very early times, and seems to have been believed in until comparatively recent times. We find it repeated in one book of venery after another, French, English, and German: in England by our author, Turbervile, Markham, and others. Pliny suggests this operation, and he quotes Columna as to the efficacy of cutting off a dog's tail when he is very young (Pliny, chap. xli.). G. de F. and the Duke of York are careful to say that they only give the remedy for what it is worth, the latter saying: "Thereof make I no affirmation," and further on: "Notwithstanding that men call it a worm it is but a great vein that hounds have underneath their tongue" (p. 87). LIST OF SOME BOOKS CONSULTED AND ABBREVIATIONS USED IN TEXT Albertus Magnus. _De Animalibus._ Ed. 1788. ---- _The Secrets of._ London, 1617. _Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales._ 1841. _---- of Cambria._ E. Williams. 1823. _Anc. Ten._, for _Ancient Tenures of Land_. By Thomas Blount. London, 1874. Andreæ, E. C. A. _Die Geschichte der Jagd._ Frankfurt, 1894. _Archæologia._ Pub. by Soc. of Antiq. Beginning 1770. Arcussia, Ch. d'. _La Conference des Fauconniers_ (_Cab. de Venerie_, vii.). 1880. Arkwright, for _The Pointer and his Predecessor_. By William A. London, 1902. 4to. See Bibliog. in 1st edit. _Arrow Release, The._ By Ed. S. Morse. 1885. Aymon, for _Le Roman des quatres fils Aymon_. Edit. P. Tarbé. 1861. _Bad. Lib. Hunt._, for "Badminton Library." Volume on Hunting by the Duke of Beaufort and Mowbray Morris. Ed. 7. London, 1901. Errors in, see Bibliog. in 1st edit. ---- vol. on _The Poetry of Sport_. London, 1896. Errors in, see Bibliog. in 1st edit. Bangert, for _Die Tiere des Altfranz. Epos_. Von Fried. Bangert. Marburg, 1885. Barrière-Flavy, C. _Censier du pays de Foix._ Toulouse, 1898. Barthold, F. W. _Georg von Frundsberg._ 1833. Bastard, A. de. _Libraire du duc de Berry._ Paris, 1834. Baudrillart, for _Traite des Eaux et Forêts, Chasse et Pêches._ Par M. B. Paris, 1834. Beckford, for _Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting._ By Peter B. London, 1796. Beltz, G. F. _Memorials of the Garter._ 1841. Berg, L. F. Freiherr. _Gesch. der deutschen Wälder._ Dresden, 1871. Bertheleti, T., _General Collections of Statutes, 1225-1546_. London, 1543-51. _Bib. Accip._, for _Bibliotheca Accipitraria_. By James Edm. Harting. London, 1891. Blancandin, ed. _H. V. Michelant._ 1867. Blane, for _Cynegetica, or Observations on Hare Hunting_. By W. B. London, 1788. Blaze, Elezear. _Catalogue d'une Collection._ Paris, 1852. ---- _Le Livre du Roy Modus._ Paris, 1839. Blome, for _The Gentleman's Recreation_. By Richard Blome. London, 1686. Blount, T. _A Law Dictionary and Glossary._ 1717.