TitOUGIltS UPON HUNTING?. 25I 



It will alsoTcquIre some consideration to place hounds 

 to the greatest advantage, where foxes either are in great 

 plenty, or very scarce. 



Hounds that lie idle are always out of wind, and afe 

 erisily fatigued. The first day you go out after a long 

 frost, you cannot expefl much sport ; take, therefore, con* 

 siderably more than your usual number of hounds, and 

 throw them into the largest cover that you have : if any 

 foxes be in the country, it is there that you will find them. 

 After once or twice going out in this manner, you should 

 rfeduce y6ur number*. 



Before a huntsman goes into the kennel to draft his 

 hounds, let him determine within himself the numbef of 

 hounds that it will be right to take out, as likewise the num- 

 ber of young hounds that he can venture in the country 

 where he is going to hunt. Different countries may re- 



* During a frost, hounds may be exercised on downs, or the turn- 

 pike roads ; nor will it do any material injury to their feet. Prevented 

 from hunting, they should be fed sparingly ; and such as can do with- 

 out flesh, should have none given them : a course of vegetables, sulphur, 

 and thin meat, is the likeliest means to keep them healthy. 



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