t-KOtJGHTS UPON HUNTING. 2^^ 



The many chances that are againfl you in fox- 

 liunthig ; the changing frequently ; the heading 

 of the foxes ; their being courfed by fheep-dogs ; 

 long faults; cold hunting i and the dying away 

 of the fcent ; make it neceffary to keep always as 

 near to the fox as you can ; which fhould be the 

 lirft and invariable principle of fox-hunting. 

 Long days do great hurt to a pack of fox-hounds. 

 I fat out one day lall winter from the kennel at 

 half pafl leven, .and returned home a quarter be- 

 fore eight at night, the hounds running hard the 

 greateil part of the time. The huntfman killed 

 one horfe, and tired another, and the hounds did 

 not recover for more than a week : we took 

 them off at laft when they were running with a 

 better fcent than they had had the whole day.* — I 

 alfo remember, after it was dark, to have heard 

 a better view halloo from an owl, than I ever 

 heard from a fportfman in my life, though I hope 

 that I fhall never hear fuch another. A long 



afiift them ; fuch as know the hounds fhould then ride up to 

 them ; they fliould endeavour, by great encouragement, to keep 

 them ru7inhig^ and get thofe forward that may be behind ; for 

 •when hounds that are tired once come to hmtlng, they tie upon 

 the fcent, and by lofing time lofe every chance they had of 

 killing the fox-^great encouragement, and proper and timely 

 affiflance only can prevent it. 



* Hounds, after every hard day, lliould have two clear days 

 to reft ; it does them lefs hurt to hunt two days following when 

 their wort is eafy, than to hunt before they may be perfeftly 

 recovered after having been hard run. 



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