The horse and the hound : their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing . repeated rates and cracks of thewhip make hounds fly to their huntsman at thistime with their heads up. When they are draw-ing properly towards him, not a word should besaid; a whipper-in riding outside of them will besufficient. It is scarcely necessary to say, a whipper-in, tobe perfect, should be an accomplished horseman,as nothing requires a much firmer and nicer handthan the act of following a hound over open groundto flog him. A whipper-in, howev
The horse and the hound : their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing . repeated rates and cracks of thewhip make hounds fly to their huntsman at thistime with their heads up. When they are draw-ing properly towards him, not a word should besaid; a whipper-in riding outside of them will besufficient. It is scarcely necessary to say, a whipper-in, tobe perfect, should be an accomplished horseman,as nothing requires a much firmer and nicer handthan the act of following a hound over open groundto flog him. A whipper-in, however, should alwayshit a hound first, and rate him afterwards, and beable to hit hard when occasion requires it. Ariotous fox-hound cannot be trifled with, if he is tobe cured of his evil ways ; and let the lash fallheavily when necessary, but at no other time. THE WHIPPER-IX. 475 / Above all, let the whipper-in have an eye to a | I skirter: skirting is the least pardonable fault a | I hound can possess, because he is then deviating ! i from his nature, and has not the force of impulse | [ to plead, which the hound that runs riot has. 476. 1—1 HORSE-DEALING. ANTIQUITY OF THE TRAFFIC IN HORSES CAVEAT EMP-TOR WARRANTY SAFEST PRECAUTION FOR GENE-RAL PURCHASERS—GENERAL AND QUALIFIED WAR-RANTY RE-SALE BY A PURCHASER WITH A WAR-RANTY SOUNDNESS AND UNSOUNDNESS SEAT OF DISEASES DEALING ON A SUNDAY SELLING BY SER-VANTS FRAUD HORSE-DEALERS. A TRAFFIC in horses must have been carried onin very early times, for we read in the 27th chap-ter of Ezekiel, that they of the house of Togar-mah traded in the fairs of Tyrus with horses andmules/ Neither is it a little remarkable that no lessa personage than Solomon himself should have dealtlargely in horses, having them brought from Egyptand other countries in strings, and selling themagain, at a great profit, to the neighbouring was likewise a great breeder of these animals, ANTIQUITY OF THE TRAFFIC. 477 in which he was favoured by havi
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