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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: Nor again, when a violent wind is blowing, for three good reasons: the
scent will not lie, the hounds cannot smell,[5] neither the nets nor
hayes will stand. In the absence, however, of any of these hindrances,
take them out every other day.[6] Do not let your hounds get into the
habit of hunting foxes. Nothing is so ruinous; and just at the moment
when you want them, they will not be forthcoming. On the other hand,
vary the hunting-ground in taking them out; which will give the pack a
wider experience in hunting and their master a better knowledge of the
country. The start should be early in the morning, unless the scent is
to fail the hounds entirely.[7] The dilatory sportsman robs the pack
of finding and himself of profit.[8] Subtle and delicate by nature,
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