#48 tHOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



power to your huntsman. The business would be inji^« 

 diciousl)^ done, and most probably would not answer your 

 expedatiQns. The hound would be tormented nml-a-prapos s 

 $n animal so little deserving of it from our hands, that 

 J should be sorry to disturb his hours of repose by unne- 

 cessary severity. You will pefeeive that it is a nice affair j 

 and, I assure you, I know no huntsmaa who is equal to it. 

 The gentleman who has carried this matter to its utmost 

 perfedion, has attended to it regularly himself j has con- 

 stantly aded on fixed principles, from which he lias never 

 deviated ^ and, I believe, has succeeded to the very utmost 

 ^of his wishes. — All hounds (and more especially young 

 ones) should be called over often in the kennel*; and 

 most huntsmen pradise this lesson as they feed their 

 hounds : they flog them while they feed them ; and if 

 they have not always a belly-full one way, they seldom 

 fail to have it the other f . It is not, however, my 



* There is no better method of teaching a hound obedience ; when you- 

 call him he should approach you ; and when you touch him with your 

 stick, he should follow you any where. 



+ **Thus we find, eat or not eat, work or play, whipping is always 

 !>i season.'* (Vide Monthly Review,) — The critic treats this passage 



