l86 THOUGHTS UPON' HUNTING. 



When hounds, running in cover, come into a road, 

 and horses are on before, let the huntsman hold them 

 quickly on beyond where the horses have been, try- 

 ing the opposite side as he goes along : — should the 

 horsemen have been long enough there to have headed 

 back the f-js, let them then try back. Condemn me 

 not for suffering hounds to try back when the fox 

 has been headed back: I recommend it at no other 

 time. 



Vv HEN your hounds divide into many parts, you had bet- 

 ter go off with the first fox that breaks. The ground will 

 soon get tainted ; nor will hounds like a cover where they 

 are often changing. 



If a cover be very large, and you have many scents, be 

 not in a hurry to get your hounds together ; if your pack 

 be numerous, let them run separate, only taking care 

 that none get away entirely from the rest : — by this means 

 many foxes will be equally distrest ; the hounds will get 

 together at last ; and one fox, at the least, you may ex- 

 pea: to kill. 



