THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING, fejl 



I reldom fufFer many unflcady hounds to be 

 taken out together ; and when I do, I take care 

 that none fliall go out with them, but fuch as they 

 cannot fpoil. 



When the place of meeting, and time are fixed, 

 every huntfman ought to be as exadl to them as 

 it is poffible. On no account is he to be lefore 

 the time ; 3'et, on fome occalions, it might be 

 better, perhaps, for the diverlion, were he per- 

 mitted to be after it* The courfe your huntf- 

 man intends to take in drawing, ought alfo to be 

 well underflood before he leaves the kennel. 



If your huntfman, without inconveniency, can 

 begin drawing at the fartheft cover down the 

 wind, and fo draw from cover to cover up the 



are not likely to be of fervice to the pack : — when you intend 

 to hunt two days following, it is then that the greateft nicety will 

 be requifite to make the moft of a fniall pack. Placing hounds 

 to the greateft advantage, as mentioned in page 428, may alfa 

 be confidered as a neceflary part of fox-hunting 



Hounds that are intended to hunt the next day, and are drafted 

 off into the hunting kennel as foon as they are fed, Ihould be let 

 out again into the outer court in the evening; my hounds have- 

 generally fome thin meat given them at this time, while the feeder 

 cleans out thair kennel, (vide note page 44.) I have already 

 faid that cleaulinefs is not lefs effential than food. 



* When there is a white froft for inftance, at the going off 

 Qf which, the fcent never lies, 



Q 4 wind 



