130 HUNTING DIRECTORY. 



Ot Chastising 



a fox is seen and hallooed the better ; it serves to let 

 them in, makes them eager, induces them to exert them- 

 selves, as well as to become handy. The case, however, 

 is very different with old hounds, to whom much halloo- 

 ing is highly prejudicial — a fault, by the bye, into which 

 ignorant huntsmen generally fall. At the same tune it 

 may be justly observed that there is a time when hallooing 

 is of use ; a time when it is injurious ; and a time when 

 it is indifferent : practice and attention can alone teach 

 the correct application. 



Young hounds, at their first entering, require encour- 

 agement. As soon as they have become handy, love a 

 scent, and begin to know what is right, it will be soon 

 enough to chastise them for doing ivrong : in which case, 

 let it be recollected, one severe flogging will save much 

 trouble afterwards. Whenever a hound is undergoing 

 castigation, the voice should accompany the stroke ; and 

 the whipper-in (whose duty it is to flog) should recollect 

 that the sound or smack of the whip will frequently an- 

 swer the purpose better than the lash, to a hound that 

 has already felt it. If any are very unsteady, it may be 

 advisable to take them out by themselves : a hare may 

 be found sitting, and be put off before them ; and thus 

 the most riotous may be reduced to obedience. Young 

 hounds should be frequently taken out amongst deer, 

 (as I have already observed) and they will sooner learn 

 to disregard them. When a cur dog is met with on the 

 road or other place, it may not be amiss for the hunts- 

 maxi to gallop after it, as it were, should not the hounds 

 attempt to run it Avithout that manoeuvre, and they will, 

 by these means, be thoroughly taught what to pursue, 



