l6o THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



liave been, trying the loppoUte fide as he goes 

 along : fhould the horlemen have been long 

 enough there to have headed back the fox, let 

 them then try back. Condemn mc not for fuffering 

 hounds to try hack when the fox has been headed 

 hack ; I recommend it at no other time. 



When your hounds divide into many parts, 

 you had better go off with the fiY& fox that 

 breaks. The ground will foon get tainted, nor 

 will hounds like a cover where they are often 

 chaiiging. 



If a cover be very large, and you have many 

 fcents, be not in a hurry to get your hounds to- 

 gether; — if your pack be numerous, let them run 

 feparate, only taking care that none get away en- 

 tirely from the rell ; by this means many foxes 

 will be equalf-y diftrcfi, the hounds will get to- 

 gether at laft, and one fox, at the leall, you may 

 cxpeft to kill. 



The heading a fox back at firt^, if the cover be 

 not a large one, is oftentimes of fervice to hounds, 

 as' he will not fiop, and cannot go off unfeen. — - 

 When a fox has been hard run, I have known 

 it turn out otherwife ; and hounds, that would 

 ealily have killed him out of the cover, have left 

 him in it. 



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