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upon every occaiion, muft often do mifchiof, an<3 

 cannot do good; whilit hounds are near togetheiv 

 Ihey will get fooner to the hound that challenges 

 without that noife than with it : if it be a right 

 fcent, they will be ready enough to join; and it it 

 be a wrong one^ provided they be let alone, they 

 will foon leave it. Injudicious encouragement, 

 on a bad day, might make them run fomcthing 

 ©r other, right or ^^■rcng. 



I know of no fault fo bad in a hound as that 

 of running falfe ; it fhould never be forgiven : 

 fuch as are not flout, or are ftifF nofcd, or have 

 other faults, may at times do good, and at their 

 word may do no harm ; but fuch as run falfe 

 mofl: probably will fpoil your fport. A hound 

 capable of fpoiling one day's fport is fcarcely 

 worth your keeping. Indifferent ones, fuch as 

 I have above defcribed, may be kept till you have 

 better to fupply their places. 



A huntfman fhould know how to marfhal every 

 hound in his pack, giving to each his proper rank 

 and precedence ; for, without this knowledge, it 

 is not poffible he fhould make a large draft as he 

 ought. There are, in moil packs, fome hounds 

 that aflifl but little in killing the fox, and it is 

 the judicious drafting off of fuch hounds that is 

 a certain fign of a good huntfman. 



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