TRAINING HOUNDS. 



As PROFICIENCY in Other arts is only attained 

 by close application, hard study, and constant 

 practice, so the art — for surely it is an art — of 

 breaking and training a foxhound requires not 

 only these, but a large fund of love for and mutual 

 bond of sympathy and understanding between 

 man and hound. The trainer having the requisite 

 keenness and perseverance, combined with kind- 

 ness and quick observance of the nature and dis- 

 position of hounds, can produce surprising re- 

 sults. 



The well-known weakness and propensity of 

 a hound pup for appropriation and theft is well 

 known to all, and is a constant source of trouble 

 between him and the party to whom you have 

 consigned him during his puppyhood, and the 

 consequence is that he receives more kicks and 

 cuffs than kind words, and when sent in to be 

 entered to fox, he considers man as an instrument 

 of torture rather than as a friend. 



Hounds, if properly treated, are really capa- 

 ble of great attachment, seldom appreciated by 

 man; most dog fanciers wasting their affection 

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