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punished unless you are quite certain he 

 deserves it. We are often too hasty in 

 draughting young hounds ; it is no uncom- 

 mon thing with the Distemper hanging 

 about them, and when over-worked in hot 

 weather, for them to become noisy, or to 

 find them tire; and when I have seen 

 young hounds do wrong that I knew had 

 no vice in the family, I have nursed and 

 rested them ; if afterwards they have conti- 

 nued their bad habits, I of course draughted 

 them. Never be in too great a hurry 

 to draught a young hound ; but an old one, 

 the first fault he commits, condemn him, 

 and never let him go out again if you wish 

 to have a perfect pack and the thing done 

 as it ought to be. 



Let me name three vices most common 

 in hounds, and which are considered incur- 

 able, viz. shirting, running mute, and being 

 noisy ; when a hound is in the habit of 

 skirting, draught him immediately, for he 



