[24] Or, "abandon the practice."

[25] See Stonehenge, p. 289 (another context): ". . . the desire for
game in a well-bred dog is much greater than the appetite for
food, unless the stomach has long been deprived of it."

As a rule, the master should give the dogs their food with his own
hand; since, however much the animal may be in want of food without
his knowing who is to blame for that, it is impossible to have his
hunger satisfied without his forming an affection for his
benefactor.[26]

[26] Or, "If want in itself does not reveal to him the cause of his
suffering, to be given food when hungry for it will arouse in him
affection for the donor."



VIII

The time to track hares is after a fall of snow deep enough to conceal
the ground completely. As long as there are black patches intermixed,
the hare will be hard to find. It is true that outside these the
tracks will remain visible for a long time, when the snow comes down
with a north wind blowing, because the snow does not melt immediately;
but if the wind be mild with gleams of sunshine, they will not last
long, because the snow is quickly thawed. When it snows steadily and
without intermission there is nothing to be done; the tracks will be
covered up. Nor, again, if there be a strong wind blowing, which will