1 6 Courfmg, 



run ivell. I myfelf often, when I have fol- 

 lowed the courfe on horfeback, and have 

 come up time enough to fave the Hare alive, 

 have taken her from the dogs, and tied them 

 up, and let her go : and fometimes, when 

 I have come up too late to fave her, I have 

 not been able to avoid flriking the dogs oa 

 the head for killing fo good an antagonift. 

 In this alone I cannot agree with * Xe- 

 nophon. I wdll allow, indeed, that who- 

 ever fees this animal either found, or run- 

 ning, or purfued, may forget any thing 

 elfe he is moft attached to ; but to fee it 

 taken, is neither g pleafing, nor a ftriking 

 fight, but rather difgufting, and by no 

 means likely to produce the forgetfulnefs of 

 any thing elfe one is fond of. But is it ex- 

 cufable for Xenophon, who was ignorant 

 of the ufe of fwift dogs, to think the taking 

 the Hare ai fo an agreeable fight. I know 

 alfo, that it i§ impoifible for thofe who fee 

 d courfe, to avoid hollowing, without any 

 ^dvjce being given for it, fince it would al- 



* T<y l(i,at-TC ofcwvyfAW. See Xenophon's Trcatife on 

 Hunting, p. 3 1 . 



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