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every possible occasion ; prevent their picking up 

 bones, and see if any are lame. 



We know no more about scent than we did lOO 

 years ago. It depends on the state and nature of 

 the soil, and the state of the atmosphere, and 

 therefore is subject to rapid variations, and I think 

 also on the fox itself. 



Cub-Hunting. 



Some people now-a-days advertise their cub- 

 hunting meets, but I think it is a bad plan, because 

 cub-hunting is for the instruction of the young 

 hounds, and the fewer people you have out with 

 you, at any rate during the earlier stages of it, the 

 better. It may, however, save a little trouble in 

 sending round to the landowners and farmers where 

 you are going, and who of course must be informed. 



In cub-hunting remember that not only your 

 young hounds have to be trained, but your two and 

 three year old hunters, in which the pack should 

 always be strong, have to be looked after and kept 

 up to their work, which is of the greatest possible 

 importance to the pack. 



It is better not to take hounds into thick big 

 woodlands until the undergrowth has fallen a bit. 

 Hounds cannot so well, until it has fallen, force 

 their way through it, the heat chokes them. They 

 get dispirited and exhausted, and in well-rided 

 woods young hounds may take to skirtling. 



In cub-hunting rout out your litters well. Let 

 your hounds find their fox themselves, and when 



