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and their game j but this he cannot do with effect, 

 unless they are obedient to his voice and horn, are 

 attentive to a halloo, fly to a cheer, and are at once at- 

 tentive to a rate. If a hound goes far towards spoiling a 

 day's sport byanything he does, it requires great com- 

 mand of temper, and considerable discrimination, 

 to decide on what is ignorance, inadvertency, or 

 excitement, or obstinate and wilful transgression. 

 Men often claim great palliation for an error, alleging 

 over-excitement as the cause, and this cause often 

 produces many errors in the fox-hound : has he not 

 the same right as man to put in the same plea, on 

 the same account? 



I once saw a really disgusting scene of cruelty 

 and bad judgment take place, where I should have 

 expected better things : this under the auspices of the 

 famous Tom Oldaker, formerly huntsman of the Old 

 Berkley fox-hounds. I had called at the kennel at 

 Gerrard's Cross, in my way to cover, intending to 

 go on with the hounds. I heard some hound in the 

 kennel crying most piteously, and heard lash after 

 lash being administered; I went in to see what was 



