Note 111 — Chapter XIII · OF SICKNESSES OF HOUNDS AND OF THEIR CORRUPTIONS

Du Fouilloux in his La Venerie (published 1561) copied much from Gaston de Foix's book, but either he or his editors made the ridiculous mistake of saying nine months instead of days. Turbervile, who translated, or rather cribbed, Du Fouilloux's book, has copied this absurd mistake, and says a hound may continue thus nine months, but not past (p.222).