SCIENCE OF FOXHUNTING. 899 



tliem back at full speed to tlieir huntsman; and 

 those which had been thus scarified and horrified 

 by whip and voice never would look at a deer 

 again. 



The late John Ward, when hunting the Craven 

 country, had a tame deer, which used to walk out 

 with the hounds into a paddock near the kennels, 

 and fed with them out of the troughs containing 

 oatmeal and boiled flesh. We all know that preven- 

 tion is better than cure ; and this is more particularly 

 the case with young foxhounds, which are very diffi- 

 cult to cure of bad habits, when they have once 

 tasted the blood of deer or hare. The noli me tangere 

 must be rigidly enforced ; and although " cats may 

 be permitted with impunity to look at kings and 

 queens," young puppy dogs must not cast longing 

 glances towards their forbidden fruit without caution. 

 A whipper-in ought to be a first rater^ with his 

 tongue as well as his hand. We don^t care the 

 least about a melodious voice, for, although agreeable 

 to the ear, it is of little service in wood or field, and 

 the possessor of it generally indulges this faculty 

 rather too freely. We prefer the vox objurgans to 

 the vox suavis et canora in a whipper-in. 



The mischief arising from an unruly pack of 

 hounds is great, but that from an unruly field of 

 sporting men far greater. We have ever considered 

 the position of a subscription master anything but 

 enviable. Those who pay their twenty-fives, or even 

 tens, always think themselves entitled to have a 

 hand in the game, or, rather, a voice in the vote ; 

 they have a right to holloa whenever so disposed. 



