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Excerpt from Practical Lessons on Hunting and Sporting
The use of cub-hunting is to make young hounds Steady, respectable members of the pack, as that of schooling is to render boys intelligent, clever, well-informed members of society in after-life, when their cub-hunting is over. The ancients commenced their hunting in a very different style to ours. They did not, however, fancy fox-hunting: to them it would have been merely an idle, unremunerating occupation. They were pot-hunters, fond of venison and bare soup, the chase of the stag and hare having been their favourite amusement and we find old Horace or Juvenal (i forget which, for to the latter I bade adieu with my gown at Oxford, a precious number of years agone, so that I trust to memory only) giving us certain information on this matter, thus Ev guo cervinam pellam Zatravit in aula militant in sylvz's catulus. They had a queer notion of entering young hounds to a deer scent in those times and I should like to see Charles Payne's face, if directed to halloa on a couple or two at a time of his young entry at a stuffed fox, set up'in a corner of the kennel yard as a preliminary introduction to the personale of the animal before pro ceeding to extremities with him in Rockingham Forest.
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