' tHOtrGHTS UPON HU^^TING. ^^ 



do no hurt to the corn, and may begin before It 

 is cut. 



If your hounds be very riotous, and you arc 

 obhged to ftop them often from hare, it will be 

 advifeable to try on (however late it may be) till 

 5^ou find a fox ; as the giving them encouragement 

 fhould, at fuch a time, prevail over every other 

 conlideration. 



Though all young hounds are given to riot, 

 yet the better they are bred, the lefs trouble they 

 will be likely to give. Pointers well-bred Itand 

 naturally, and high-bred fox-hounds love their 

 own game beft. Such, however, "as are very 

 riotous, fliould have little reft ; you fliould hunt 

 them one day in large covers where foxes arc in 

 plenty ; the next day they fliould be walked out 

 amongft hares and deer, and flopped from riot ; 

 the day following be hunted again as before. Old 

 hounds, which I have had from other packs, (par- 

 ticularly fuch as have been entered at hare) I 

 have fometimes found incorrigible ; but I never 

 yet knew a young hound fo riotous, but, by this 

 management, he foon became fteady. 



When hounds are rated, and do not anfwer 

 the rate, they fhould be coupled up immediately, 

 and be made to know the whipper-in ; in all 

 probability this method will fave any farther 



H trouble. 



