I06 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTIN6^ 



Though all young hounds are given to riotj yet the bef- 

 fer they are bred, the less trouble will they be likely to give. 

 Pointers, well bred, stand naturally ; and high-bred fox- 

 hounds love their own game best. Such, however, as are 

 very riotous, should have little rest : you should hunt them 

 one day in large covers where foxes are in plenty ; the next 

 ^ay they should be walked out amongst hares and deer, and 

 stopped from riot • the day following be hunted again, as- 

 before. Old hounds, which I have had from other packs 

 (particularly such as have been entered at hare), I have some- 

 times found incorrigible ; but 1 never yet knew a young 

 hound so riotous, but, by this management, he soon became 

 steady. 



When hounds are rated and do not answer the rate, they 

 should be coupled up immediately, and be made to know 

 the whipper-in -^ in all probability this method will save any 

 farther trouble. These fellows sometimes flog hounds un- 

 mercifully, and some of them seem to take pleasure in their 

 cruelty : I am sure, however, I need not desire you to pre-^ 

 vent any excess in corre6tion. 



I HAVE heard, that no fox-hounds will break off to 



