^2 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



have but little trouble with your young houn(^9 

 afterwards. 



Such young hounds an are moll- riotous at tiiTt, 

 generally fpeaking, I think, are bell in the end. 

 A gentleman in my rieighbourhood was {o tho- 

 rouglily convinced of this, that he complained 

 bitterly of a young pointer to the pertbn who gave 

 it him, becaufe he had done no iinfchle.f. How- 

 ever, meeting the fame perfon tome time after, he 

 told him the dog he believed would prove a good 

 one at lafl. — " How fo ?" replied his friend, ** it 

 '^ was but the other day that you faid he was good 

 '' for nothing." — " True; hut he has killed me time- 

 *' teen iurlcles fmce that" 



If, owing to a fcarcity of foxes, you fhould iloop 

 your hounds at hare, let them by no means have 

 the blood of her ; nor, for the fake of confiil- 

 ency, give them much encouragement. Hare- 

 hunting has one advantage — hounds are chiefly 

 in open ground, where you can eatily command 

 them ; but, notwithflanding that, if foxes be in 

 tolerable plenty, keep them to their own game, 

 and forget not the advice of the old fportlman. 



Frequent hallooing is of ufe with young hounds j 

 it keeps them forward, prevents their being lofl, 

 and hinders them from hunting after the reft. The 

 oftener therefore a fox is feen and hallooed, the 



better; 



