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per couple in India is twenty guineas, as I have been 

 informed upon good authority by a gentleman who 

 resided in that country for some time, and was in the 

 habit of joining a pack occasionally, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Calcutta, which hunted jackalls in the same 

 manner as we hunt the fox in England ; he described 

 the sport as a bad imitation of bad cub-hunting ; the 

 number sometimes killed is very great, and although 

 the jackall appears to come nearer to the species of the 

 dog than the fox does, yet the hounds never refuse to 

 break him up, but " tear him and eat him" in as good 

 style as if they had killed him from Owston Wood or 

 Charnewood Forest. 



Young hounds after they have commenced their 

 education, should on no account whatever be trusted 

 at exercise, or even when moved out into the paddock, 

 without a sufficient and eifective number of persons to 

 attend them and prevent the possibility of their breaking 

 away or getting into the slightest mischief; the ice 

 once broken, and then there is an end of all confidence 

 in them, and if the old hounds are taken out along 

 with the puppies to exercise, as is the case in some 

 cocktail establishments, the matter is made a thousand 

 times worse. I once knew an instance of a lot of 

 wild young hounds being moved out into a field 

 adjoining the kennel where they were kept, and where 

 a long tailed black pony was grazing, attended by the 

 feeder alo72e ; from wantonness one of the hounds bayed 

 at the pony, which induced another to do the same, 

 and the pony to declare his approbation or disappro- 

 bation by repeated snortings and caprioles ; the main 

 body concluded it was a signal for a rush, when away 



