244 THOUGHTS UPON HUNtlNC, 



If you know any pack that is very unsteady, dep^nff 

 upon it, either no care has been taken m entering the young- 

 hounds, to make them steady, or else the men afterwards,' 

 by hallooing them on improperly, and to a wrong scent; 

 have forced them to become so. 



The first day of the season, I advise you to take out you^ 

 pack where you have least riot, and where you are most 

 sure to find; for, notwithstanding their steadiness at th6 

 end of the last season, long rest may haive made them other^ 

 wise. If you h^ve any hotrnds more vitious than the resf, 

 they should be' left at home a day or two, till the others arc 

 well in blood. Your people, without dOubt, v.ill be parti- 

 cularly cautious, at the beginning of the season, what hounds 

 they halloo to : should they be encouraged on a wro:?ig 

 sccntj it will be a great hurt to them. 



much as fox-hounds, for, without it, they will be totally uncontrollable ; 

 yet not all the chastisement that cruelty can inflid, will render them obe- 

 dient, unless they be made to understand what is required of them : when 

 that is efFefted, many hounds will not need chastisement, if you do not 

 suffer them to be corrupted by bad example. Few packs are more obedi- 

 ent than my own, yet none, I believe, are chastised less ; for, as those 

 Iioufids chat afe guilty of an offence are tie<vtr pardoned ; so those that ar® 

 innocent, being by this means less liable to be corrupted, are tieijer j>u* 

 disked. 



