90 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



to chastise them for doing wrong. ; in which case, one se» 

 vere beating will save a deal of trouble. You should re- 

 commend to your whipper-in, when he flogs a hound, to 

 make use of his voice as well as his whip ; and let him re- 

 member, that the smack, of the whip is often of as much use 

 as the lash, to one that has felt it» If any be very unsteady, 

 it will not be amiss to send them out by themselves, wheil 

 the men go out to exercise their horses. If you have hares 

 in plenty, let some be found sitting, and turned out before 

 them J and you will soon find the most riotous will not 

 run after them. If you intend them to be made steady 

 from deer, they should often see deer, and they will not 

 regard them ; and if, after a probation of this kind, you 

 turn out a cub before them, with some old hounds to lead 

 them on, you may assure yourself they will not be unsteady- 

 long J for, as Somerville rightly observes, 



*' Easy the lesson of the youthful train, ' 



When instinft prompts, and when example guides.'* 



Flogging hounds in the kennel (the frequent praflieeof 

 most huntsmen) I hold in abhorrence : it is unreasonable^ 

 UBjUst, and cruel j and, carried to the excess we sometimes 



