xnOUGHtS UPCfN HUNTING. I05 



Inline. — Either hares are less plentiful in other countries, 

 or other sportsmen are less nice in making their hounds 

 steady from them. 



1 WOULD advise you to hunt your large covers with 

 your young hounds: it will tire them out*j a necessary 

 step towards making them steady ; — will open the cover 

 against the time you begin in earnest ; and^ by disturbing 

 the large covers early in the year, foxes will be shy of 

 them in the season, and shew you better chaces ; besides^ 

 as they are not likely to break from thence, you can do no 

 hurt to the corn, and may begin before it is cut. 



If your hounds be very riotous, arid you are obliged ta 

 stop them often from hare, it will be advisable to try on 

 (however late it may be) till you find a fox; as the giving 

 them encouragement should, at such a time, prevail over 

 every other consideration* 



* Provided that you have old hounds enough out to carry on the scent : 

 if you have not a body of old hounds to keep up a cry on the right scent, 

 the young ones, as soon as the ground becomes foil'd, will be scattered 

 about the cover, hunting old scents, and will not get on fast enough to tire 

 themselves. Young hounds should never be taken into large covers where 

 there is mach riot, unless whippers-in can easily get at them. 



