64 TREATMENT WHEN FIRST 



^ Then on their haunches rear'd, rampant they seize 

 Each other's throats ; with teeth and claws, in gore 

 Besmear'd, they wound, tliey tear, till on the ground, 

 Panting, half dead, the conquer'd champion lies : 

 Then sudden all the base ignoble crowd 

 Loud-clam'ring seize the helpless worried wretch. 

 And, thirsting for his blood, drag diff''rent ways 

 His mangled carcass on th' ensanguin'd plain. 

 O breasts of pity void ! t'oppress the weak. 

 To point your vengeance at the friendless head, 

 And with one mutual cry insult the fallen ! 

 Emblem too just of man's degenerate race." 



If you find they take a dislike to any particu- 

 lar hound, the safest way will be to remove him, 

 or it is very probable they will kill him at last. 

 When a feeder hears the hounds quarrel in the 

 kennel, he halloos to them to stop them. He 

 then goes in amongst them, and flogs every 

 hound he can come near. How much more rea- 

 sonable as well as more efficacious would it be, 

 were he to see which were the combatants, be- 

 fore he speaks to them! Punishment would 

 then fall as it ought, on the guilty only. In all 

 packs there are some hounds more quarrelsome 

 than the rest ; and it is to them we owe all the 

 mischief that is done. If you find chastisement 

 cannot quiet them, it may be prudent to break 

 their holders ; for since they are not necessary 

 to them for the meat they have to eat, they are 

 not likely to serve them in any good purpose. 



