I96 THOUGHTS UrOH HUNTING"* 



When houn4s are running in cover, you can- 

 not be too quiet. If the fox be running fhort, 

 and the hounds arc catching him, not a word 

 Ihould then be faid : it is a difficult time for 

 hounds to hunt him, as he is continually turn- 

 ing, and will fometimes lie down, and let them 

 pals him. 



I have remarked, that the greateft danger of 

 loling a fox is at the firfl finding of him, and 

 when he is linking; at both of which times he 

 frequently will run flioit, and the eagernefs of 

 the hounds is too apt to carry them beyond the 

 fcent. When a fox is lirft found, I wifh every 

 one would keep behind the liounds, till they are 

 well fettled to the fcent; and when the hounds 

 are catching him, I willi thcni to be as filent as 

 they can. 



When he is caught, I hke (o fee hounds eat 

 him eagerly. Tn fome countries, I am told, they 

 have a method o^ treeing him;* it is of ufc to 

 make the hounds eager ; it lets them all in ; they 

 recover their wind, and cat him more readily. I 

 fhould advifc you, at the fame time, not to keep 

 him too long, as I do not imagine the hounds 



* The intention of it is to make the hounds more eager, 

 and to let in the tail- hounds. The fox is thrown acrofs the 

 branch of a tree, and the hounds are fufFered to bay at him for 

 fome minutes, before he is thrown amongflthem. 



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