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wrong." The old hounds, it is to be hoped, will not 

 join them ; but this allowance to the young ones — this 

 letting them have their fling, is very different from 

 cheering them on to the scent you would have them disre- 

 regard. It is well to let them find out the difference between 

 the scent upon which they can, without difficulty, strike, 

 and that for which they have to hunt ; between that to 

 which their nature and instinct will direct them, and that 

 to which they should be encouraged, by all possible means, 

 even to the mobbing of a cub, for the sake of blooding 

 them. Whippers-in cannot be too cautious in rating 

 young hounds, on first entering ; if a young hound be 

 seen taking a scent by himself, throwing his tongue, 

 and following it eagerly, in a different direction from the 

 rest of the pack, it does not follow that he is running riot. 

 You must ascertain that he is not running fox, before cor- 

 recting him. Too often, as soon as he is seen skirting 

 from the main body, as it seems to the whipper-in, off he 

 dashes through the stuff to cut the culprit in two, with a 

 " Garraway, would yer ? licy ! ivould ye V enough to 

 frighten him out of his skin. All the while the hound has 

 been on the scent of a fox, and says to himself — "Oh, ho ! 

 very well, if this is the fun, hang me if ever I try for an- 

 other." Do not condemn a hound too soon, if he be slack 

 at entering ; many very good hounds are, what is called, 

 very backward in coming forward, and are very tardy in 

 exhibiting any signs of the future excellence they are des- 

 tined ultimately to display. I remember one particularly 

 good bitch, in Mr. Sebright's pack, Whisper (by the War- 



