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Title: Cross country with horse and hound
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Peer, Frank Sherman
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ermay have had for the fathers or mothers. All the luckyones are kennelled by themselves, and the indolent, happy-go-lucky days of puppyhood are at an end. The sternroutine of the life of a foxhound has begun. A disconso-late set the puppies are at this time. Some refuse to eatuntil starvation finally drives them to it. Homesicknessactually is so great in some that they pine and die of it.Some grow morose, and quarrel and fight and even kill eachother. Such fights never fail to bring the huntsman to thedoor, and the ofi^enders feel the sting of his double thong ina way they will be a long time forgetting. Altogethertheir treatment now is a very different thing from whatMrs. Farmer used to give them. The poor brutes wish,no doubt, they had been drafted with the rubbish. Withharsh words and continual correction, confined day andnight in a small room, obliged to sleep on hard woodenbenches—no wonder if they feel like felons. Once a daysome one comes to the door and drafts them into the
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ys o -in (U b£) OS O The Hound Puppy at Walk 183 feeding-room one at a time, calling each by name. Someone else is there to help a puppy remember what his or hername is. ** Barmaid, Barmaid, Barmaid ! each time louderthan before, cries the kennel-huntsman. The timid puppystarts, hesitates, runs back, gets a crack of the assistantslash, and in she goes. After a week or so each dog-puppy is coupled to athoroughly trained bitch, and vice versa, and they go out fora walk, the huntsman and whippers-in going with them onfoot. In the course of these promenades they are takenthrough fields in which sheep are grazing. Any tendencyon a puppys part to chase these brings correction of theseverest nature. In olden days, if a new-entry hound per-sisted at all in going after a flock of running sheep he wascoupled with a stout ram and dragged about the fields, orhad his taste for sheep butted out of him by a ram whowould stand his ground. After a few weeks of this exerciseand discipline, the couplin

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