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given to riot, yet the better they are bred, the 

 less trouble will they be likely to give you. 

 Pointers, well bred, stand naturally ; and high- 

 bred fox-hounds love their own game best. 

 Such, however, as are very riotous, should have 

 little rest: you should hunt them one day in 

 large covers, where foxes are in plenty ; the 

 next day they should be walked out amongst 

 hares and deer, and stop}:!ed from riot ; the day 

 following be hunted again, as before. Old 

 hounds, that I have had from other packs, (par- 

 ticularly such as have been entered at hare,) I 

 have sometimes found incorrigible; but I never 

 yet knew a young hound so riotous, but, by 

 this management, he soon became steady. 



When hounds are rated, and do not answer 

 the rate, they should be coupled up immedi- 

 ately, and be made to know the whipper-in : in 

 all probability tliis method will save any farther 

 trouble. These fellows sometimes flog hounds 

 unmercifully, and some of them seem to take 

 pleasure in their cruelty : I am sure, however, I 

 need not desire you to prevent the excess of it. 



I have heard, that no fox-hounds will break 

 off to deer, after once a fox is found. I cannot 

 say the experience I have had of this diversion 

 will anywise justify the remark: let me advise 



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