HUNTING DIRECTORY. 139 



Entering Young Fox-hounds. 



will be shy of them in the season, and shew you better 

 chases : besides, as they are not likely to break from 

 thence, you can do no hurt to the corn, and may begin 

 before it is cut. 



" If your hounds are very riotous, and you are obliged 

 to stop them very often from hare, it will be advisable, I 

 think, to try on (however late it may be) till you find a 

 fox, as the giving them encouragement should, at such 

 a time, prevail over every other consideration. 



" Such as are very riotous should have little rest ; you 

 should hunt them one day in large covers, where foxes 

 are in plenty ; the next day they should be walked out 

 amongst hares and deer, and stopped from riot ; the day 

 following be hunted again as before. Old hounds, that 

 I have had from other packs (particularly such as have 

 been entered at hare) I have sometimes found incorrigible ; 

 but I never yet knew a young hound so riotous, but, by 

 this management, he soon became steady. 



"When hounds are rated and do not answer the rate, 

 they should be coupled up immediately, and be made to 

 know the whipper-in : in all probability this method will 

 save any farther trouble. These fellows sometimes flog 

 hounds most unmercifully, and some of them seem to 

 take pleasure in their cruelty. 



"I have heard, that no fox-hounds will break off to deer, 

 after once a fox is found. — I cannot say the experience 

 I have liad of this diversion will any ways justify the re- 

 mark ; let me advise you therefore to seek a surer de- 

 pendance. Before you hunt your young hounds where 

 hares are in plenty, let them be awed, and stopped from 

 hare : before you hunt amongst deer, let them not only 



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