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you, therefore, to seek a surer dependence. Be- 

 fore you hunt your young hounds where hares 

 are in plenty, let them be awed, and stopped 

 from hare: before you hunt amongst deer, let 

 them not only see deer, but let them draw 

 covers where deer are; for you must not be 

 surprised if, after they are so far steady as not 

 to run them in view, they should challenge on 

 the scent of them. Unless you take this method 

 with your young hounds, before you put them 

 into the pack, you will run a great risk of cor- 

 rupting such as are steady, and will lose the 

 pleasure of hunting with steady hounds. I 

 have already told you that after my joung 

 hounds are taken into the pack, I still take out 

 but very few at a time, when I hunt among 

 deer. I also change them when I take out 

 others; for the steadiness they may have ac- 

 quired cotdd be but little depended on, were 

 they to meet with any encouragement to be 

 riotous. 



I confess I think first impressions of more 

 consequence than they are in general thought 

 to be : I not only enter my young hounds to 

 vermin on that account, but I even use them, 

 as early as I can, to the strongest covers and 

 thickest brakes, and I seldom find thev are ever 



