88 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



They are walked out often among fheep, hares, 

 and deer : it iifes them to a rate. Sometimes he 

 turns down a cat before them, which they hunt 

 up to, and kill : and, when the time of hunting 

 approaches, he turns out badgers or young foxes, 

 taking out fome of the fieadleft of his old hounds 

 to lead them on — this teaches them to hunt. He 

 draws fmall covers and furze brakes with them, 

 to ufe them to a halloo, and to teach them obedi- 

 ence. If they find improper game, and hunt it, 

 they are flopped and brought back ; and as long 

 as they will flop at a rate, they are not chaflifed. 

 Obedience is all that is required of them, till they 

 have been fufhciently taught the game they are 

 to purfue. An obftinate deviation from it after- 

 wards is never 'pardoned. It is an oblervation of 

 the Marchefe Beccaria, that ' ' La certezza di un 

 *' caftigo, benche moderato, fara fempre una 

 *' maggiore impreflione, che non il timore di un 

 *' altro piu terribilc, unito colla fperanza, della 

 " 'impunita." 



When my young hounds are taken out to air, 

 my huntfman takes them into that country in 

 which they are to hunt. It is attended with this 

 advantage ; they acquire a knowledge of the 

 country, and when left behind at any time, can- 

 iiot fail to find their way home more eafily. 



When 



