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the stock of foxes you have in it. I should 

 say four days a week, for a pack of fifty 

 couples, will keep your hounds and horses 

 in regular work. You had better divide 

 them into two separate packs ; for hounds 

 that are hunted together will give less 

 trouble, be more handy, and not so jea- 

 lous of each other. It is decidedly a bad 

 plan to take out too many hounds, and 

 never by any means take out one that is 

 not quite fit and in condition. If you can 

 muster twenty or one-and-twenty couples 

 in each pack, all effective, it is as many 

 as you ever ought to take into the field. 

 On no occasion rob either pack to make up 

 the number of the other; even sixteen 

 couples, that know each other, willdo th e 

 thing better by themselves, and, if well 

 matched, will carry a good head across a 

 country, and not appear contemptible either. 

 How disgusting it is to see a large pack 

 out, and only a few couples at head! 



