The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field — John Shaqi
The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the FieldTaplin, William
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The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field
Taplin, William
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MR. BECKFORD says, his feeder, who was a good one, and of much
experience, mixed the meal in _equal_ quantities; that the oatmeal he
boiled for half an hour; and then put out the fire, adding the
barley-meal, and mixing both together: his reason for boiling one, and
not the other, was, that boiling made the oat-meal THICK, and the
barley-meal _thin_; and that when he fed with the barley-meal _only_, it
should not be put into the copper, but mixed up with the scalding
liquor, in a proper tub, or hogshead, kept for the purpose. There are
many little things within the department of the FEEDER, which, if
neglected, become of serious consequence. Nice observation should be
made upon the state of the BITCHES at all times; upon the least
indication of their going to HEAT, they should be _instantly_ removed; a
few hours delay may be the destruction of some of the best hounds in the
kennel. After their return on a hunting day, he should observe whether
there are any hounds who have sustained injuries in the feet by thorns,
flints, &c. in which case a fomentation of warm pot-liquor, (or bran and
water,) followed by a washing with cold vinegar, or salt and water, will
generally effect a speedy cure. Hounds seriously LAME, or palpably SICK,
should be separated from the rest, and placed where they can be more at
ease, and have better attention.
KENNEL—is a sporting term for the spot in which a FOX deposits himself
after his nocturnal depredations, and to which he retires about the dawn
of day: being found by the hounds in drawing covert, he is then said to
be _unkennelled_, and the chase begins. When safe in some _burrow_, or
_hole_, below the surface, he is then said to lie at EARTH.
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