So TProUGHTS UPON HUNTING* 



to you. All that I Ihall lay of it is, that it would 

 be Ids bad than entering them at hare. A eat is 

 as good a trail as any ; but on no account Ihould 

 any trail be uied after your hounds are Hooped 

 to a fcent. 



I know an old fportfrnan who enters his young 

 hounds firft at a cat, which he drags along the 

 ground for a mile or two, at the end of which he 

 turns out a badger, firft taking care to break his 

 teeth ; he takes out about two couple of old 

 hounds alon.o- Aiih the young ones to hold them 

 on. He never enters his young hounds but at 

 vermin ; for he fays, '' train up a child in the way 

 '^ he jJioidd go, and ivhen he is old he will not de- 

 *' -part from it.'* 



Summer hunting, though ufeful to young 

 hounds, is prejudicial to old ones; I think, there- 

 fore, you will do well to referve fome of the befl 

 of your' draft-hounds to enter your young hounds 

 with, feledling fuch as are moft likely to fet them 

 a good example. I need not tell you they fhould 

 not be flvirters ; but, on the contrary, fhould be 

 fair hunting hounds, fuch as love a fcent, and 

 that hunt clofeft on the line of it ; it will be ne- 

 cellary that fome of them fliould be good finders, 

 and all mufl be fteady : thus you procure for 

 your young hounds the belt inftru6lors, and at 

 the fame time prevent two evils, which would 



neceffarily 



