EFFECTS OF PHYSIC ON HOUND AND DOG. 185 



and enjoying blood, are very difficult to be got 

 out of it. 



There is one thing I have been often doomed 

 to see, and which cannot be too much lamented 

 — it is the forced inactivity of huntsmen and whip- 

 pers-in by order when a bad fox who won't run, 

 and a good fox who has run, but cannot or will not 

 run any more, and over whom the hounds, as far 

 as open running goes, have worked their triumjoh, 

 sticks to a cover. Any man who really knows the 

 art of the chase, and the reward that hounds ought 

 to have, to which they look, and without which 

 they will not show the best of sj^ort, ought, when a 

 fox, from will or weariness, will not leave a cover, 

 to assist the hounds by any means to kill that fox 

 as soon as possible. ^ 



It would assuredly spoil the hounds to take them 

 off either the one fox or the other ; the thing to do, 

 therefore, is not to mar but to make the hounds, 

 and to get the best chance for a second fox, by 

 killing the one that the hounds immediately 

 deserve. Instead of lending their assistance in a small 

 cover so stained that there remains not a yard of 

 scent, you hear foolish people cry out to some more 

 sensible man, who cracks his whip in the fox's face, 



