314 MANAGEMENT OF HOUNDS. 



bag which had arrived, and to our horror Thomas soon 

 made his appearance with the bag in question, out of 

 which he drew one of the finest greyhound foxes I had 

 ever seen, dead and stiff. 



** Well, my boys," said the governor, "you intended 

 to play me a trick, but the tables are turned, and I have 

 only to impress upon your minds, that if ever you attempt 

 to make the hounds run after a fox, they will then 

 become a lot of curs, and, as such, I will not keep them 

 another week." Although there were no foxhounds in 

 our country, my father never would allow his hounds to 

 change from their own legitimate game, and after-expe- 

 rience has taught me that he was perfectly right. 



