74 LETTERS TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 



IF CHASTISEMENT HAS TO BE GIVEN, HE LEAVES THAT TO 



HIS WHIPS. 



pack is quick hunting, and of a good huntsman quiet handling. 

 On a good scenting day hounds will hunt themselves, 

 but on a bad scent the skill and patience of the huntsman 

 are at once apparent. There is always the field to consider ; 

 after a quick dart the young bloods, and sometimes the old 

 ones, are a bit excited and are apt to press hounds. If the 

 pack are on the line, the field always seems willing to give 

 them law, but when off the line and the huntsman .casting 

 the field will not stand still. I knew one canny old huntsman 

 who, when hounds checked, if he thought it was but 



