318 MODERN TRAINING. 



In breaking and hunting, when a dog strikes a fox trail, 

 give him plenty of time and wait until he has decided which 

 way the fox has gone. Do not commence hurrying the 

 hound and he will almost always learn to take the right end 

 of the track, and, in trailing, I think the hunter should give 

 the dogs plenty of time on any track that they can nose out, 

 should always remain behind his dogs, try to keep them as 

 close together as possible, and instead of continually hark- 

 ing them on, it would be better to call them back together 

 and let them nose out the track accurately, if possible to do 

 so. A hunter that always thinks he knows exactly where 

 the quarry can be jumped, and is continually hunting his 

 dogs on from trail to trail, never has a first class pack of 

 trail dogs. It is true that very often, after this manner, he 

 jumps his game very quickly, but to put him in a country 

 where game is very scarce, he will more frequently spoil a 

 good day's sport; moreover, after harking his dogs off a 

 cold trail a few times, they soon get discouraged, and will 

 not work at all. Any well bred pack of hounds that is 

 broken and handled properly should, in favorable weather, 

 work and trail a track all day, that is from ten to twenty 

 hours old, and to get them to do that you must stay behind 

 them, give them lots of time, try to keep them very close 

 together, and let them nose it out. The great secret, I think, 

 in catching red foxes is to have good stayers, ones that will 

 run very close together. If there is a dog in your pack 

 which is too fast or too slow and cannot be made to trail or 

 run close with them, it would be best to kill him. One bad 

 ' run-over" dog will often ruin a large pack, and with a few 

 such losses of time occasioned by this fault, they rarely ever 

 catch any red foxes. While the pack should run well to- 

 gether and very fast, they should not " run-over" and make 

 bad losses of time. 



It is now apparent that, to endure the fatiguing exertion 



