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to be more tractable, attentive, and much more manageable. 

 It is usual to take them out to their walks in a country 

 where they are to be hunted, as the sooner thej acquire a 

 knowledge of it the better ; and when they are thrown out, 

 or left behind, are more likely to find their way home. 



In entering foxhounds, it should always be at their own 

 game, although some are foolish enough to begin them with 

 hares, which just requires a second training to break them 

 from that pursuit. Nothing is so good for rendering young 

 hounds obedient as walking them frequently out amongst 

 sheep, hares, and deer, and restraining their pursuits of 

 these animals. This probation will teach them to be steady. 

 A fox-cub should then be turned out before them, in com- 

 pany of some old hounds, as leaders, which has the eflfect of 

 training them in a short time instinctively, as it were, to 

 hunt themselves. After they have tasted blood, it will be 

 more difficult to repress their ardour than to excite it. 

 Every means of encouraging them should be used in the 

 earlier stages of their training, and punishment only ad- 

 ministered after they have made some progress. In flogging 

 a hound for a fault, the whipper-in should use his voice at 

 the same time ; this teaches him to know for what he is 

 beaten. It has been recommended, and successfully adopted, 

 that a live hare should be introduced into the kennel, and 

 the dogs soundly flogged whenever they attempt to approach 

 her. 



Hounds at their first entering cannot be encouraged too 

 much. When they are become hardy, love a scent, and begin 

 to know what is right, it will be soon enough to chastise 

 them for doing wrong ; in which case one severe beating 

 will save a deal of trouble. It should be recommended to 

 the whipper-in, when he flogs a hound, to make use of his 

 voice as well as his whip ; and let him remember that a 



