96 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTINGT. 



they think they have chaftifed them enough, the 

 hare fhould then be taken away, the huntfman 

 fhould halloo off his hounds, and the whippers- 

 in fliould rate thcni to him. If any one love 

 hare more than the rell, von may tie a dead one 

 round his neck, flogging him and rating him at 

 the lame time. This poliibly may make him 

 afhamed of it. I never bought a lot of hounds, 

 fome of which were not obliged to undergo this 

 difcipline. Either hares are lefs plentiful in other 

 countries, or other Iportimcn are Icfs nice in 

 making their hounds iteady irom them. 



I would advile you to hunt your large covers 

 with your young hounds : it will tire them out;* 

 a neceflary ftep towards making them (teady ; 

 will open the cover againft the time you begin in 

 earned, and by dilturbing the large covers early 

 in the year, foxes v.ill be Ihy of them in the 

 feafon, and ihcw you better chaccs ; betides, as 

 they are not likely to break from thence, you can 



* Provided that you have old hounds enough out, to carry 

 on the fcent; if you have not a body of old hounds to keep 

 up a try on the right fcent, the young ones, as foon as the 

 ground becomes foiled, v.'ill be fcattered about the cover, hunt- 

 ing old fcents, and will not get on faft enough to tire them- 

 felves. Young hounds fliould never be taken into large covers, 

 where there is much riot, unlefs whippers-in can eafily get at 

 tliem. 



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