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has never deviated ; and I believe has succeeded 

 to the very utmost of his wishes. All hounds (and 

 more especially young ones) should be called 

 over often in the kennel ; * and most huntsmen 

 practise this lesson as they feed their hounds. 

 They flog them while they feed them ; and if 

 they have not always a belly -full, one way, they 

 seldom fail to have it the other.-}- It is not, how- 

 ever, my intention to oppose so general a prac- 

 tice, in which there may be some utility : I shall 

 only observe, that it should be used with discre- 

 tion, lest the whip should fall heavily in the 

 kennel on such as never deserve it in the field. 

 My hounds are generally fed about eleven 



• There is no better method of teaching a hound obe- 

 dience : when you call him, he should approach you ; and 

 when you touch him with your stick, he should follow you 

 any where. 



f " Thus we find, eat or not eat, work or play, whipping 

 is always in season." — (Vide Monthly Review.) The critic 

 treats this passage with great severity. He would have 

 spared it, without doubt, had he understood that it was in- 

 troduced on purpose to correct the abuse of kennel-disci- 

 pline. Unacquainted as the reviewer seems to be with the 

 subject, it is no wonder that he should mistake a meaning, 

 perhaps rather unfairly stated by the author, in favour of 

 that humanity which he is supposed so much to want. 

 Hounds are called in to feed, one by one, and such only are 

 corrected as come uncalled for : nor is correction unjust, so 

 long as it shall fall on the disobedient only. Obedience is 

 an useful lesson, and though it cannot be practised too 

 often, it should be taught them at a more idle time. 



