20O THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING, 



stop the, tail hounds, and throw them in at head : — I airf 

 almost indined to say, it is the only time when it should be 

 done. While hounds rii-n straight, it cannot be of any use g 

 for they will get on faster with the scent than they Would 

 without it. 



When hounds a^re hUiiting ^ cold scent, and point to- 

 wards a cover, let a whipper-in get forward to the opposite 

 side of it r should the fox break before the hounds reach: 

 the cover, stop them, and get them nearer to him. 



When a fox- persists in running in, a strong cover, lies 

 down often behind the hounds, and they are slack in hunt- 

 ing- him, let tlie huntsmen get into the cover to them : it 

 may make the fox break j it may keep him off his foil , or 

 may prevent the hounds from giving him up. 



It is not often that slow huntsmen kill many foxes r 

 they are a check upon their hounds, which seldom kill a^ 

 fox but with a high scent, when it is out of their power 

 to prevent it. What avails it, to be told which way the 

 fox is gone, when he is so far before that you cannot hunt 



