TO HUNTSMEN 



fond of you, they will be listening about 

 for you if you go on the silent system. 

 Hounds that habitually hang back in covert 

 should be drafted, but after you have 

 drawn one blank you will only make these 

 offenders worse by standing and blowing. 

 Move on, and they will catch you up. 

 Once more, but it cannot be too often 

 repeated, never interfere with your hounds 

 at checks till they have made their own 

 casts first. To quote Lord Henry Bentinck 

 once more, hounds that are repeatedly 

 messed about and cast will in a short time 

 become demoralised so that they will do 

 nothing to help themselves. 



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