S2 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



slip their necks out of the collar, and give trouble in catch' 

 ing them again. 



When they have been walked often in th/is manner 

 amongst the sheep, you may then uncouple a few at a time, 

 and begin to chastise such as offer to run after them ; but 

 you vv'ill soon find tliat the cry of ware shreP, will stop 

 them suf^ciently without the whip; and the less this is 

 used the better. With proper care and attention, you 

 will soon make them ashamed of it ; but if once suffered 

 to taste the blood, ycu may find it difficult to reclaim 

 them. Various are the methods used to break such dogs 

 from sheep ; some will couple them to a ram, but that is 

 breaking them with a vengeance : you had better hang 

 them. — A late lord of my acquaintance, who had heard 

 of this method, and whose whole pack had been often 

 guilty of killing sheep, determined to punish them, and 

 to that intent put the largest ram he could find into his 

 kennel. The men with their whips and voices, and the 

 ram with his horns, soon put the whole kennel into con- 

 fusion and dismay ; and the hounds and the ram were then 

 left together. Meeting a friend soon after, " Come," says 



