Sporting scenes and country characters . dashes along the beautiful green ridings from pointto point, marking every movement of the hounds, par-ticularly the younger ones, encouraging those which areacting correctly, in imitation probably of the old hounds,and correcting others which are doing wrong. If a haresprings up before the nose of a young hound, he willdart at her and pursue her. When the huntsman per-ceives this, he rates him soundly; and the stroke of hisheavy and long whip resounds from side to side; for itis as necessary to break a young homid from the pursuitof hare or r
Sporting scenes and country characters . dashes along the beautiful green ridings from pointto point, marking every movement of the hounds, par-ticularly the younger ones, encouraging those which areacting correctly, in imitation probably of the old hounds,and correcting others which are doing wrong. If a haresprings up before the nose of a young hound, he willdart at her and pursue her. When the huntsman per-ceives this, he rates him soundly; and the stroke of hisheavy and long whip resounds from side to side; for itis as necessary to break a young homid from the pursuitof hare or rabbit, as it is from that of deer or fawn,encouraging them solely to the scent of the fox. Cubhunting, being chiefly confined to the woods, it is trulydelightful, even to a person on foot, to see the young 44 CUB HUNTING. hounds, assisted by those which outmatch them in ageand experience, lay themselves well on after a cub. Atone moment they are in full cry here; at another, theyrush headlong in another direction—threading, crossing,. and recrossing; while many an echo, awakened by theirjoyous and exhilarating cry, mingled with the animatingvoice of the huntsman, makes the blood tingle againin the veins of the hearty old fox hunter. CUB HUNTING. 45 The chief object of cub hunting is to train the younghounds for the due performance of their after duties ina long chace, and nothing contributes so much to theattainment of this object as to let the young houndstaste the blood of the fox; and the unwillingness of thecubs to leave home contributes much to the accomplish-ment of this. Nor, under some circumstances, do thehuntsman and whippers-in hesitate, if occasion requires it,to turn the victim into the very mouths of the , however, with the superior nose and train-ing of the old hounds, the cubs are killed without re-sorting to any other means than fair play. As soon as a cub is killed, it is seized by the hunts-man, who immediately shouts the Wo-hoop, which, re-
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