266 LAME HOUNDS. 



nor will hounds like a cover where they are 

 often changing. 



The heading a fox back at first, if the cover 

 be not a large one, is oftentimes of service to 

 hounds, as he will not stop, and cannot go off 

 unseen. When a fox has been hard run, I have 

 known it turn out otherwise ; and hounds that 

 would easil}' have killed him out of the cover, 

 have left him in it. 



When a fox has been often headed back on 

 one side of a cover, and a huntsman knows there 

 is not any body on the other side to halloo him, 

 the first fault his hounds come to, let him cast 

 that way, lest the fox should be gone off; and 

 if he is in the cover, he may still recover him. 



Suffer not your huntsman to take out a lame 

 hovmd. If any are tender-footed, he will tell 

 you, perhaps, that they will not mind it when 

 they are out : probably the}"^ may not; but how 

 will they be on the next day ? A hound, not 

 in condition to run, cannot be of much service 

 to the pack ; and taking him out at that time 

 may occasion him a long confinement after- 

 wards. Put it not to the trial. 



I have seen huntsmen hunt their young 

 hounds in couples. Let me beg of you not to 

 suffer it. I know you would be sorry to see 



