CHAPTER VIII 



CAPTAIN "^ KR^Y.'R— {continued) 



Season 1889-1890 



CUB-HUNTING should always be understood 

 b}^ the few who go out as a period which 

 belongs entirely to the master and his staff — 

 a rehearsal for the serious business of the season. 

 It is not a time meant for their amusement, and they 

 should be grateful if fortune favours them with a 

 gallop — not look on it as something they have the 

 right to expect. There are many different systems 

 of pursuing cubs and teaching the young entry to 

 hunt, but every master must be allowed to adopt 

 the system which he considers best, without our 

 criticism. 



My own opinion is that hounds require education 

 to hunt in the open quite as much as they do in 

 covert, though it should not be forgotten that they 

 very naturally prefer the former to the latter, so 

 that a course of covert hunting is very necessary. 



Where there is a litter of cubs, hounds should 

 not be allowed to go away on an old fox, and it 

 should be borne in mind that the old ones have 

 usually a better scent than the cubs. 



When, however, the body of the pack con- 

 centrate their attention on a cub and force him to 

 leave covert, I think it is much the best policy to 



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