94 METHOD OF CHASTISING 



If you run any cubs to ground in an indiffer- 

 ent country, and do not want blood, bring them 

 home, and they will be of use to your young 

 hounds. Turn out bag-foxes to your young 

 hounds, but never to your old ones. I object 

 to them on many accounts ; but of bag-foxes I^ 

 shall have occasion to speak hereafter. 



The day after your hounds have had blood is 

 also a proper time to send them where there is 

 riot, and to chastise them, if they deserve it : it 

 is always best to correct them when they can- 

 not help knowing what they are corrected for. 

 When you send out your hounds for this pur- 

 pose, the later they go out, I think, the better, 

 as the worse the scent is, the less inclinable will 

 they be to run it, and of course will give less 

 trouble in stopping them. It is a common prac- 

 tice with huntsmen to floo; their hounds most 

 unmercifully in the kennel : I have already told 

 you I like it not; but if many of your hounds 

 are obstinately riotous, you may with less im- 

 propriety put a live hare into the kennel* to 

 them ; flogging them as often as they approach 



* This passage has also been thought desei'viiig of cen- 

 sure, though its motive is humane. By these means the 

 disobedient are taught obedience, and a more general pun- 

 ishment prevented, which the effect of bad example might 

 otherwise make necessary. 



