THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 26l 



If it be not your intciillon that a fox iiiould 

 break, you fhould prevent him, I think, as much 

 as you can from comin-j at all oat of the cover: 

 for though you fhould head him back afterwards, 

 it moft probably would put the hounds to a fault : 

 when a pack of i'ox- hounds once leave a cover 

 after their game, they do not readily return to it 

 again. 



When a ioi^ has been often headed back on 

 .one tide of a cover, and a huntiVnan knows there 

 is not any body on the other fide to halloo him, 

 'the firll fault his hounds come to, let him cafl 

 that way, left the fox fliould be gone oiF; and 

 if he be ftill in the cover, he may flill recover 

 him. 



Suffer not your hunffman to take out a lame 

 hound. If any bt; tender-footed, he will tell you, 

 perhaps, that they will not mind it when th^)' are 

 out ; — probably they may not ; but how will they 

 Jdc on the next day ? A hound, not in condition 

 to run, cannot be of much fervice to the pack ; 

 and the taking him out at that time may occa- 

 iion him a long confinement afterwards: — put 

 it not to the trial. Should any fall lame while 

 they are out, leave them at the iirll houfc thati 

 you come to. 



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