OF TRAINING FOX-HOUNDS. 
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to be more tractable, attentive, and much more manageable. 
It is usual to take them out to their walks in a country 
where they are to be hunted, as the sooner they acquire a 
knowledge of it the better ; and when they are thrown out, 
or left behind, are more likely to find their way home. 
In entering foxhounds, it should always be at their own 
game, although some are foolish enough to begin them with 
hares, which just requires a second training to break them 
from that pursuit. Nothing is so good for rendering young 
hounds obedient as walking them frequently out amongst 
sheep, hares, and deer, and restraining their pursuits of 
these animals. This probation will teach them to be steady. 
A fox-cub should then be turned out before them, in com¬ 
pany of some old hounds, as leaders, which has the effect of 
training them in a short time instinctively, as it were, to 
hunt themselves. After they have tasted blood, it will be 
more difficult to repress their ardour than to excite it. 
Every means of encouraging them should be used in the 
earlier stages of their training, and punishment only ad¬ 
ministered after they have made some progress. In flogging 
a hound for a fault, the whipper-in should use his voice at 
the same time ; this teaches him to know for what he is 
beaten. It has been recommended, and successfully adopted, 
that a live hare should be introduced into the kennel, and 
the dogs soundly flogged whenever they attempt to approach 
her. 
Hounds at their first entering cannot be encouraged too 
much. When they are become hardy, love a scent, and begin 
to know what is right , it will be soon enough to chastise 
them for doing wrong; in which case one severe beating 
will save a deal of trouble. It should be recommended tc 
the whipper-in, when he flogs a hound, to make use of his 
voice as well as his whip; and let him remember that a 
