262 HUNTING DIRECTORY. 



Of Training Dogs to Hunt the Wolf, 



him, rouse him, and follow him to his haunt : M'hen there, 

 you should caress and encourage him, to induce him 

 afterwards to go and pursue him alone. The move- 

 ments of the old dog will animate the younger ; you 

 should, therefore, sometimes send him forward to excite 

 the others, and afterwards you may call him behind, to 

 see whether the young dogs are capable to go by them- 

 selves. They should be caressed a good deal the first 

 time they manifest timidity. You should go before them, 

 to teach them to pursue by themselves ; and as the young 

 wolves will not easily quit their situations, you must 

 make the dogs return to the charge, and follow the 

 scent ; and then, after having encouraged them, call 

 them off. 



To train young dogs to hunt the wolf, the sportsman 

 must proceed in the following manner : — He should take 

 them to the wood every two days, towards the places 

 which he supposes to be frequented by the wolves. He 

 cannot fail to discover them, because the he or she wolf 

 always goes in the morning to the cubs, and then retires 

 into other thickets to deceive the hunters : it is then that 

 you have an excellent opportunity of employing blood 

 hounds to advantage. The thickets chosen by the 

 wolves for their retreat are easily known : near them are 

 always some fragments of their prey, by which they are 

 betrayed, as bones of horses, skeletons of dogs and other 

 animals. It is, besides, easy to remark whether the 

 grass about the spot is trodden, which is a sign that the 

 young wolves have come thither to lie down. 



Eqidpage for Hunting the Wolf. — Having described 

 the M'olf, and the manner of discovering him in a general 



