HUNTING DIRECTORY. 55 



Quarrelsome Hounds. 



Panting, half dead, the conquer'd champion lies : 

 Then sudden all the base ignoble crowd 

 Loud-clam'ring seize the helpless worried wretch, 

 And thirsting for his blood, drag different ways 

 His mangled carcass on th'ensanguin'd plain. 

 O breasts of pity void ! t'oppress the weak, 

 To point your vengeance at the friendless head, 

 And with one mutual cry insult the fallen ! 

 Emblem too just of man's degenerate race." 



'* If you find they take a dislike to any particular hound 

 the safest way will be to remove him ; or it is very pro- 

 bable they will kill him at last. When a feeder hears 

 the hounds quarrel in the kennel, he halloos to them to 

 stop them. He then goes in amongst them, and flogs 

 every hound he can come near. — How much more reason- 

 able as well as more efficacious would it be, were he to 

 see which wei"e the combatants, before he speaks to them. 

 Punishment would then fall as it ought, on the guilty only. 

 In all packs there are some hounds more quarrelsome 

 than the rest ; and it is to them we owe all the mischief 

 that is done. If you find chastisement cannot quiet 

 them, it may be prudent to break their holders ; for since 

 they are not necessary to them for the meat they have to 

 eat, they are not likely to serve them in any good purpose. 



** Young hounds should be fed twice a day, as they 

 seldom take kindly at first to the kennel-meat, and the 

 distemper is very likely to seize them at this time. It is 

 better not to round them till they are thoroughly settled ; 

 nor should it be put off till the hot weather, for then they 

 would bleed too much." 



Beckford says, "if any of the dogs are thin over the 

 back, or any more quarrelsome than the rest, it will be 



