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will then kill sheep, and such as are not quite steady 

 from deer, will then be most likely to break off after 

 them. When hounds are encouraged on a scent, if they 

 lose that scent, it is then that an unsteady hound is 

 ready for any kind of mischief. 



I have already said, that a huntsman ought never 

 to flog a hound. When a riotous hound, conscious 

 of his offence, may escape from the whipper-in, and fly 

 to the huntsman, you will see him put his whole pack 

 into confusion, by endeavouring to chastise him himself. 

 This is the height of absurdity. Instead of flogging 

 the hound, he ought to encourage him, who should 

 always have some place to fly to for protection. If the 

 offence be a bad one, let him get off his horse, and 

 couple up the dog, leaving him to be chastised by the 

 whipper-in, after he himself is gone on with the pack ; 

 the punishment over, let him again encourage the 

 hound to come to him. Hounds that are riotous in 

 cover, and will not come off readily to the huntsman's 

 halloo, should be flogged in the cover, rather than out 

 of it : — treated in this manner, you will not find any 

 difficulty in getting your hounds off; otherwise, they 

 will soon find that the cover will save them ; from 

 whence they will have more sense, when they have 

 committed an offence, than to come to receive punish- 

 ment. A favourite hound, that has acquired a habit of 

 staying back in large covers, had better not be taken 

 into them. 



I am more particular than I otherwise should 

 have been, upon a supposition that your hounds 

 draw ill ; however, you need not observe all the 

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