2S2 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



and which, I am sorry to say, few huntsmen attend to, X 

 wish they would remember the following rules, viz. that, 

 ' with a good scent, their cast should be quick ; with a bad 

 scent, slozv, and that, when their hounds are picking along 

 a cold scent, they are not to cast them at all. 



When hounds are at fault, and staring about, trusting 

 \ entirely to their eyes and their ears, the making a cast 

 ' with them, 1 apprehend, would be to little purpose. Tlie , 

 ' likeliest place for them to find the scent, is where they 

 , left it ; and, when the fault is evidently in the dog, a for- 

 , ward cast is least likely to recover the scent*. 



1 When hounds are making a regular cast, trying for 

 I the scent as they go, suffer not your huntsman to say a 



v;ord to them : it cannot do any good, and probably 

 1 may make them go over the scenl : nor should you 



suffer either the whip or the voice of your whipper-in to 

 \ be now heard ^ his usual roughness and severity would 



* Hounds know where they left the scent, and, if let alone, will try to 

 recover it. Impatience in the huntsman, at such times, seldom fails, in the 

 pnd, to spoil the hounds. 



