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ness also depends the perfection of their olfactory 

 nerves, and sense of smelling ; for if accustomed to 

 disagreeable effluvia, a dog will be ill-adapted to trace 

 the fail of a deer, or scent of a fox, through greasy 

 fallows or ground tainted by the grazing of sheep. 



OF TRAINING FOXHOUNDS. 



The first thing to be attended to in young dogs of 

 all kinds is to make them understand their names 

 well, and answer to them, before training, for which 

 they should be rewarded and caressed. After fox- 

 hounds have learned to follow freely, they should be 

 coupled, and led out amongst sheep, deer, etc., and 

 made to understand that such is not their game. But 

 when they have arrived at the locality where sheep 

 and deer are, they must be let loose, and only a few 

 at a time ; and if they attempt to run after them, they 

 must be severely chastised, and the cry of 'ware sheep 

 be often repeated to them, which cry will generally, on 

 future occasions, have the effect of stopping them from 

 sheep-running, without the necessity of using the 

 whip. Great care is necessary at the offset to pre- 

 vent them from worrying a sheep, which they will 

 sometimes do under the management of careless 

 trainers. If they are allowed to taste the blood, it 

 will be very difficult afterwards to break them off this 

 bad habit. 



Young hounds should be often walked about the 

 courts of the kennel, follow^ed by the whipper-in, who 

 ought to rate them after the huntsmen. They should 

 also be frequently taken out with people on foot, v/hich 

 teaches them to be more tractable, attentive, and much 

 more manageable. It is usual to take them out to 

 their walks in a country where they are to be hunted. 



