THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 23 1 



who the culprits are. When your hounds are running a 

 fox, he then should content himself with stopping such as 

 are riotous, and should get them forward. They may be 

 condemned upon the spotj but the punishment should be 

 deferred till the next day, when they may be taken out on 

 purpose to commit the fault, and suffer the punishment. 

 I agree with you, that young hounds cannot be awed too 

 much i yet suffer not your punishment of them to exceed 

 their offence. I could wish to draw a line betwixt justice 

 and barbarity*. 



A WHIPPER-IN, while breaking-in young hounds, some? 

 times will rate them before they commie the fault : this 

 may, perhaps, prevent them for that time i but they will 

 be just as ready to begin the next opportunity. Had he 

 not better let them quite alone, till he see what they v/ould 

 be at ? — The discipUne then may be proportioned to the 



^ I am sorry that it should be necessary to explain what I mean by 

 hnrharity : I mean that punishment which is either unnecessarily inflidl^: 

 ed, which is inflidled with severity, or from which no possible good can. 

 arise. Punishment, when properly applied, is not cruelty, is not je- 

 yenge — it is justice, it is even mercy. The intention of punishment is to 

 prevent crimes, and consequently to prevent the necessity of punishing. 



