^8 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



trouble. Thel'e fellows fometimes flog houndi 

 unmercifully, and fome of them feem to take 

 pleafure in their cruelty ; I am fure, however, I 

 need not defire you to prevent any excefs in cor- 

 re61:ion. 



I have heard that no fox-hounds will break of£ 

 to deer after once a fox is found. — 1 cannot fay 

 the experience T have had of this diveriion will 

 m any wife juflify the remark ; let me advife you, 

 therefore, to feek a furer dependence. Before you 

 hunt your good hounds where hares are in plenty, 

 let them be awed and flopped from hare : before 

 you hunt amongft deer, let them not only fee 

 deer, but let them draw covers where deer are ; 

 for you muft not be furprifed, if, after they are 

 fo far fleady as not to run them in view, they 

 Ihould challenge on the fecnt of them. Unlefs 

 you take this meihod with your young hounds 

 before you put them into the pack, you will run 

 a rifr of corrupt! ig the old ones, and may fufler 

 continual vexation by hunting with unfleady 

 hounds. I have already told you, that after my 

 young hou:-ds are taken into the pack, I ilill 

 take out but very fev/ at a time when I hunt 

 among deer. I alfo change them when I take 

 out others, for the fleadinefs they may have ac- 

 quired could be but little depended on, were they 

 to meet with any encouragement to be riotous. 



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