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same time to eive his hounds as much the wind 

 as possible.* 



It is not often you will see a pack perfectly 

 steady where there is much riot, and yet draw 

 well : some hounds will not exert themselves 

 till others challenge, and are encouraged .-}- 



I fear the many harriers you have in your 

 neighbourhood will be hurtful to your sport : 

 by constantly disturbing the covers, they will 

 make the foxes shy ; and when the covers 

 become thin, there will be but little chance of 

 finding foxes in them : furze covers are then 

 the most likely places. Though I like not to see 

 a huntsman to a pack of hounds ever off his 

 horse, yet, at a late hour, he should draw a 

 furze cover as slowly as if he were himself on 

 foot. I am well convinced that huntsmen, by 

 drawing in too great a hurry, leave foxes some- 

 times behind them. I once saw a remarkable 

 instance of ,it with my own hounds : we had 

 drawn (as we thought) a cover, which, in the 



* Hounds that are hunted constantly at an early hour 

 seldom, I think, draw well : they depend too much upon a 

 drag, and it is not in the strongest part of the cover that 

 they are accustomed to try for it. 



f This i-elates to making hounds steady only, which 

 always causes confusion, and interrupts drawing. "When 

 once a pack are become steady, they will be more likely to 

 draw well than if they were not. 



