100 Seventy Years a Master. 



though their endeavours impeded the men 

 with spades, I used to let the hounds think 

 that they assisted in digging him out. Nor 

 would I allow the people at work to push a 

 hound rudely out of the way, however much 

 his scratching at the hole might interfere with 

 the breaking up of the drain. In cub-hunting, 

 or at the end of a sufficient day, when I had 

 no one's pleasure to think of but my own, I 

 have encouraged my hounds to tear up a drain, 

 assisted them a little with a spade, until they 

 have, as it were, by their own exertions, drawn 

 and killed their fox, and this I found to be of 

 the utmost service in bringing young hounds 

 on." 



Upon the face of it, is it not clearly better 

 to treat your hounds in this way, than to have 

 a Whipper-in chopping them here, there and 

 everywhere, keeping them right back from the 

 earth or drain, and not letting them have a 

 look in? If you run a fox to ground, how 

 many great '' chaw-bacons " you get there, all 

 wanting to see as much as they can. Then is 

 it not natural the hounds should also want 



