CHAPTER XIII 



TEACHING YOUNG HOUNDS TO HUNT 



THIS interesting and instructive article is 

 from the pen of "Comedy," and should be 

 a warning to those who do not always 

 break their hounds by patience and kindness. 



"In a hunting country where everybody is more 

 or less interested in hunting, the headline of this 

 article is used very frequently; it is not always 

 apphed to the preparing of the young hounds for 

 their duties afield, but is used on almost any occa- 

 sion where a youngster of any kind is getting a new 

 experience; it is applied sarcastically occasionally 

 to the older individual when his calculations are 

 upset. 



"The education of the young hound or beagle is 

 not alone in teaching him to hunt, that ofttimes is 

 not nearly as hard as teaching him what not to hunt. 

 There are many things that the inexperienced bea- 

 gle is Hable to run riot on, and there is nothing so 

 good as a season's farm experience among all kinds 

 of domestic and farm animals, towards giving the 

 youngster a good education, and it usually speaks 



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