^3* THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING, 



degree of the offence. Whether a riotous young hound ruft 

 }ittle or much, is of small consequence, if he be not encou-* 

 raged : it is the blood only that signifies, which in every 

 Jtind of riot should carefully be prevented*. 



My general orders to my whipper-in are, if, when he 

 rate a hound, the hound does not mind him, to take hini 

 Up immediately, and give him a severe flogging. Whip-- 

 pers-in are too apt to continue rateing, even when they 

 ^nd that rateing will not avail. There is but one way to 

 Stop such hounds, which is, to get to the heads of them, 

 I also tell him» never, on any account, to strike a hound, 

 unless the hound be at the same time se.nsible what 

 it is for. What think you of the whipper-in who struck a 

 hound as he was going to cover, because he was likely to 

 be noisy afterwards — saying, " you will be noisy enough by 

 ^* and bye, I zvarrant you .?" — Whippers-in, when left to 

 themselves, are rare judges of propriety. 1 wish they 



• It is not meant that hounds should be suffered to continue on a 

 wrong scent longer than may be necessary to know that the scent is a 

 wrong one. This passage refers to page 95, where the author's mean- 

 ing is more fully explained. It is introduced here more strongly, to 

 >nark the danger of encouraging hounds on a wrong scent, and indulging 

 . iJiem afterwards in the blood of it. 



