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.should. adopt this method, you must remember to use theni 

 early to go in couples ; and, when they become of a proper 

 age, they must be walked out often -, for, should they remain 

 confined, they would neither have the shape, health, or un- 

 derstanding, which they ought to have. When I kept har- 

 riers, I bred up some of the puppies at a distant kennel ; but, 

 having no servants there to exercise them properly, I found 

 them much inferior to such of their brethren as had the 

 luck to survive the many difficulties and dangers which they 

 had undergone at their walks : these were afterwards equal 

 to any thing, and afraid of nothing ; while those that had 

 been nursed with so much care, were weakly and timid, 

 and had every disadvantage attending private education. 



I HAVE often heard, as an excuse for hounds not hunting 

 a cold scent, that they were too high bred. I confess, 1 know 

 not what that means ; but this I know, that hounds are 

 frequently too ill-bred to be of any service. It is judgment 

 in the breeder, and patience afterwards in the huntsman^ 

 that make them hunt*. 



* Hounds which I had thought stiff-nosed for many years, I have seen 

 hunt the coldest scent, when once the impatience of youth had left them. 



