loo THOUGHtS UPON HUNTINCi. 



In fummer hounds might hunt in an evening: 

 — I know u pack, that after having killed one 

 fox in the morning with the young hounds, killed 

 another in the evening with the old ones. Scent 

 generally lies well at the elofe of the day, yet 

 there is a great obje6lion to hunting at that time; 

 — animals are then more cafily difturbed, and 

 you have a greater variety of icents than at an 

 earlier hour. 



Having given you all the information that I 

 can poffibly recolledl:, with regard to my own 

 management of young hounds, I fliall now take 

 notice of that part of your lafl letter, where, I 

 am forry to find, our opinions differ. — Obedience, 

 you fay, is every thing neceffary in a hound, and 

 that it is of little confequenee by what means it 

 is obtained. I cannot concur altogether in that 

 opinion ; for I think it very necelfary, that the 

 hound lliould at the fame time underlland you. 

 Obedience, under proper management, will be a 

 necefTary confequenee of it. Obedience, furely, 

 is not all that is required of them ; they fliould 

 be taught to diflinguifh of themfelves right from 

 wrong, or I know not how they are to be ma- 

 naged ; when, as it frequently happens, we can- 

 not fee what they are at, and mufl take their 

 words for it. A hound that hears a voice which 

 has often rated him, and that hears the whip he 

 has often felt, I know, will flop. I alfo know, 



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