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determined upon any particular measure, — for instance, 

 have issued jouvjiat for the drafting of a hound ; — if 

 you take a real pride in, and mean to be answerable for, 

 birth, parentage, and education of the pack, let no 

 remonstrance, no entreaties, cause you to revoke. If 

 your order be sufficient it should suffice that you have 

 so ordered. You may be cautious, but you must be 

 inflexible. The line so often quoted, as to have been 

 almost Anglicized, must be your ruling principle : — 



" Sic volo, sic jubeo— Stet pro ratione, voluntas." 



In cub-hunting, when you have the power of stopping 

 hounds, never suffer them to go away with an old fox. 

 If you do have a good run, and kill him, it is unfair 

 towards j^our supporters to anticipate sport which they 

 cannot be expected to share ; and, if you have no run, 

 you only make a useless attempt, militating against the 

 purpose of the day, which is devoted to the education 

 and improvement of young hounds. After brushing 

 about in thick covert (one of the chief objects in this 

 woodland work being to teach hounds to face the stuff", 

 and draw for a fox through the thickest underwood), 

 should a young fox break, there can be no objection to 

 a scurry in the open ; it is, indeed, necessary, before 

 regular hunting, to enable you to judge of the pace of 

 young hounds, and how they run together. Some little 

 fun in the open is also as needful as the work in covert, 

 to practise hounds in getting away quick to horn and 

 lialloo. It is a magnificent sight to see from thirty to 



