ADVICE ON FOX-HUNTING 



customers wants to have his fling, let him 

 go for at least two hundred yards, as long 

 as he gets through no fence over which 

 you cannot follow him, and then ride 

 quietly and quickly to his head, and let 

 him have it as hot as you can. When he 

 has felt the lash then, and not till then, 

 rate him soundly and frighten him back 

 to the huntsman. 



If you ride after a riotous hound, hol- 

 loaing at him from behind, you not only 

 destroy your chance of hitting him, but 

 will, by your ill-judged noise, as often 

 as not make some of the others join him. 

 Similarly, in the hunting season, when the 

 pack is being cast, and a young hound 

 starts after a hare, the quieter you are, 

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