92 DIFFERENT METHODS OF 



kept in a kennel by themselves till the young 

 hounds are hunted with the pack. I need not, 

 I am sure, enumerate the many reasons that 

 make this regulation necessary. 



I never trust my young hounds in the forest 

 till they have been well blooded to fox, and sel- 

 dom put more than a couple into the pack at a 

 time.* The others are walked out amongst the 

 deer, when the men exercise their horses, and 

 are severely chastised if they take any notice 

 of them. They also draw covers with them ; 

 choosing out such where they can best see their 

 hounds, and most easily command them, and 

 where there is the least chance to find a fox. 

 On these occasions I had rather they should 

 have to rate their hounds than to encourage 

 them. It requires less judgment; and if impro- 

 perly done, is less dangerous in its consequences. 

 One halloo of encouragement to a wrong scent 

 more than undoes all that you have been doing. 



When young hounds begin to love a scent, it 

 may be of use to turn out a badger before them : 



* I sometimes send all my young hounds together into 

 the forest, with four or five couple of old hounds only ; 

 such as I know they cannot spoil. As often as an}' of them 

 break off to deer, they are taken up and flogged. When 

 they lose one fox they try for another, and are kept out 

 till they are all made tolerably steady. 



