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My general orders to my whipper-in arc, if 

 when he rate a hound, tbiC hound does not mind 

 him, to take him up immediately, and give hitn 

 a fevere flogging. Whippers-in are too apt to 

 cpntinue rating, even when they find that rating 

 will not avail. There is but one way to ilop fuch 

 hounds, which is to get to the heads of them. — 

 I will alfo tell him, never on any account to 

 ilrike a hound, unlefs the hound be at the fame 

 time fenfible what it is for. — What think you of 

 the whipper-in who ftruck a hound as he was 

 going to cover, becaufe he was likely to be noify 

 afterwards, faying, '* jou ivHl be no'ify enough by 

 " afid by, J warrant you." Whippers-in, when 

 Ifift to themfelves, are rare judges of propriety! 

 I wifh they would never flrike ^ hound that does 

 r^ot deferve it, and would ilril^e thofe hard that 

 do. They feldom diftingpifh fufhciently the de- 

 grees of offence which a dog may have commit- 

 ted, to proportion their punifhment accordingly ; 

 and fuch is their ftupidity, that when they turn 

 a hound after the huntfman, they will rate him 

 as feverely as if he had been guilty of the greatef^ 

 liiult. 



It is feldom neceffary to flog hounds to make 

 them obedient, lince obedience is the firft leifon 

 they are taught. Yet, if any fhould be more 

 riotous than the reft, they may receive a few cuts 

 in the morning before they leave the kennel. 



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