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allowed to go to view-lialloas in season, as adopting 

 this course of instruction to the entry out of season. 

 It all leads to the same inevitable result — dis- 

 traction. If boys at school require a thorough 

 grounding in grammar to make them proficients in 

 the Greek or Latin languages, so much the more 

 imperative is it to ground well the young fox- 

 hounds' noses — keep them there, and tlie}^ cannot 

 fail to do well, if there is anything like well-doing 

 in their composition. Lift them up by halloas and 

 screams, and they will assuredly do ill. Inde- 

 pendently, however, of the mischief done to tlie 

 entry by this wild work, you do not get a whit 

 nearer to your object — handling your fox — by 

 throwing them in upon him when crossing the 

 diive, but quite the reverse. The old hounds are 

 thrown off the line, and unless there happens to be 

 a rare scent, the young will throw up their heads at 

 the very first short turn made by the cub, and then 

 all is in confusion. 



Again, by teaching the young to look out for 

 their game, they will be ever on the qui vlve, and 

 give chase to any other object which they catch 

 sight of; and how are they to distinguish a fox 

 from a hare, at a long distance ? The whipper-in 

 is then called to rate and scarify the delinquents, if 

 he can catch them ; and they may well wonder why 

 they are punished for doing that which their hunts- 

 man had been cheering them to do — run something 

 they had seen crossing the drive before they knew 

 " what's what." We say, never give young hounds 

 a view at all. Harriers are spoilt by this sort of 



