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offence be a bad one, let him get off his horfc 

 and couple up the dog, leaving him to be chaf- 

 tifed by the whipper-in, after he himfelf is gone 

 on with the pack : the punilliment over, let 

 him again encourage the hound to come to him. 

 Hounds that arc riotous in cover, and W'ill not 

 come off readily to the huntfman's halloo, fhould 

 be flogged in the cover rather than out of it ; — • 

 treated in this manner, you will not find any dif- 

 ficulty in getting your hounds off; otherwife, they 

 will foon find that the cover will lave them; from 

 whence they will have more fenfc, w^hen they 

 have committed an offence, than to come to re- 

 ceive punifhment. A favourite hound, that has 

 acquired a habit of ftaying back in large covers, 

 had better not be taken into them. 



I have been more particular than I otherwife 

 fhould have been, upon a fuppohtion that your 

 hounds draw ill ; hovv^ever, you need not obferve 

 all the cautions I have given, unlefs your hounds 

 require them. 



Some art may be neceffary to make the moil of 

 the country that you hunt. I would advife you not 

 to draw the covers near your houfe, while you can 

 find elfewhere; it wnll make them certain places to 

 find in when you go out late, or may otherwife be 

 in want of them. For the fame reafon, 1 would 

 advife you not to hunt thofe covers late in the fea-- 

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