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Much Noise and Rattle inconsistent witli Hare Hunting. 



he should be a very Grizzle ; and the more quiet he is, 

 the better. He should have infinite perseverance ; for 

 a hare should never be given up whilst it is possible to 

 hunt her : she is sure to stop, and therefore may always 

 be recovered. 



*' The whipper-in also ha§ little to do with the one I 

 before described : yet he may be like the second whip- 

 per-in to a pack of fox hounds ; the stable boy who is 

 to follow the huntsman : but I would have him still more 

 confined, for he should not dare even to stop a hound, 

 or smack a whip, without the huntsman's order. Much 

 noise and rattle is directly contrary to the first principles 

 of hare-hunting, which is to be perfectly quiet, and to 

 let your hounds alone. I have seen few hounds so good 

 as town packs, that have no professed huntsman to follow 

 them. If they have no one to help them, they have at 

 the same time no one to spoil them ; which, I believe, 

 for this kind of hunting, is still more material. I should, 

 however, mention a fault I have observed, and which 

 such hounds must' of necessity sometimes be guilty of, 

 that is, running back the heel. Hounds are naturally 

 fond of scent ; if they cannot carry it forward, they will 

 turn, and hunt it back again : hounds that are left to 

 themselves make a ftiult of this, and it is, I think, the only 

 one they commonly have. Though it is certainly best 

 to let your hounds alone, and thei*eby to give as much 

 scope to their natural instinct as you can ; yet in this 

 particular instance you should check it mildly ; for as it 

 is almost an invariable rule in all hunting to make the 

 head good, you should encoin-age tlicm to try forward 

 first; which may ho done without taking them oif their 



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