THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. lO^ 



try, and do not want blood, bring them home, and they. 

 will be of use to your young hounds. Turn out bag-foxes, 

 to your young hounds, but never to your old ones. I ob» 

 jedt to them on many accounts : but of bag- foxes I shall 

 have occasion to speak hereafter. 



The day after your hounds have had blood, is also a 

 proper time to send them where there is riot, and to chas^ 

 tise them, if they deserve it : it is always best to correcfl. 

 them when they cannot help knowing what they are 

 correded for, When you send out your hounds for this 

 purpose, the later they go out the better 3 as the worse- 

 the scent is, the less inclinable will they be to run it, and, 

 of course, will give less trouble in stopping them. It is 

 a common practice with huntsmen, to flog their hounds 

 most unmercifully in the kennel, I have already mention- 

 ed my disapprobation of it ; but, if many of your hounds 

 be obstinately riotous*, you may with less impropriety 

 put a live hare into the kennel to them, flogging them as 



* This passage has also been thought deserving of censure, though its 

 motive is humane. By these means the disobedient are taught obedience, 

 and a more general punishment prevented, which the efFei^ of had example 

 might otherwise make necessary. 



