82 VOICE VERSUS WHIP. 



when it is perfectly indifferent ; but it is long 

 practice, and great attention to hunting, that 

 must teach you the application. 



Hounds, at their first entering, cannot be en- 

 couraged too much. When they are become 

 handy, love a scent, and begin to know what is 

 right, it will be soon enough to chastise them 

 for doing wrong ; in which case one severe beat- 

 ing will save a deal of trouble. You should re- 

 commend to your whipper-in, when he flogs a 

 hound, to make use of his voice as well as his 

 whip ; and let him remember, that the smack of 

 the whip is often of as much use as the lash to 

 one that has felt it. If any are very unsteady, 

 it will not be amiss to send them out by them- 

 selves, when the men go out to exercise their 

 horses. If you have hares in plenty, let some 

 be found sitting, and turned out before them, 

 and you will soon find the most riotous will not 

 run after them. If they are to be made steady 

 from deer, they should see them often, and they 

 will not regard them ; and if, after a probation 

 of this kind, you turn out a cub before them, 

 with some ol^ hounds to lead them on, you may 

 assure yourself they will not be unsteady long ; 

 for, as Somervile rightly observes, 



