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When hounds have a long distance to cover, 

 beyond ten or twelve miles, it is advisable to send 

 them on overnight ; on which occasions, the next 

 day, they certainly show themselves to greater 

 advantage, as they are more Hght, lively, and fitter 

 to go, than when only a short time out of the 

 kennel, or when turned out of an omnibus. 



It is a disadvantage to a pack not hunting four 

 days a week, because, when they hunt only three, — 

 there are many hounds which seldom hunt two 

 days together, — they do not get acquainted with 

 each other's tongues to have that confidence which 

 generally makes them fly together at once, but will 

 stop and listen to the stranger, till they hear hounds 

 they know to be true. 



Cub-Hunting 



It is a mistake to put off cub-hunting tiU late in 

 the autumn, when the intention of it is to reserve 

 the foxes till the season begins, particularly in 

 game countries. Some men are content to let a 

 whipper-in go round with the keeper to be shown 

 a htter of cubs, which being done, they liave a 

 present made ; but it is a great chance if the cubs 

 are ever seen afterwards. The hounds had better 



