TREATMENT OF HOUNDS. ii 



Keep your hounds light and strong. The great 

 art is to convert flesh into well-developed muscle. 

 Keep their skins loose, and their coats clean, shiny 

 and glossy. 



Give your hounds plenty of long steady exercise 

 during the summer and show them all sorts of riot. 

 Go out as early as possible in the morning, and 

 have them in good working condition before 

 cub-hunting. 



A huntsman should never rate or strike a 

 hound. 



A whipper-in should always correct a hound on 

 the spot. If he cannot get at him at the moment, 

 he should wait till he repeats the fault and then 

 correct him sharply. 



He should take care how he strikes a hound 

 amongst others, as he may strike the wrong one. 



It is no use damning a whipper-in if things go 

 wrong, it will only confuse and very likely irritate 

 a man who is doing his best. Speak to him 

 seriously and point out his mistakes to him on the 

 first opportunity while going home. 



Never hurry your hounds in going to covert 

 or returning home ; 5 miles an hour is about the 

 pace. Let them have plenty of reasonable 

 freedom. Nothing looks so bad as a pack of 

 hounds whipped up close to a huntsman's heels. 



In going from covert to covert, and indeed 

 when hounds are not running, avoid riding over 

 seeds and wheat, &c., and breaking down fences 

 and gates. 



Whippers-in should " make " their hounds on 



