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fre(}uent changes in one fingle chace, ttie 

 alterations that enfue on any different motion^ 

 and on her degrees of finking. The courfing 

 of a Cur Dog, or the fright from an obvious 

 pafTenger, is often the occalion of an unex- 

 pected fault i and, after fuch an accident, 

 the Dogs muft be cherifhed, and be put 

 upon it again and again, before they will 

 take it and acknowledge it for their game. 

 The reafon is, as I conceive, the change of 

 the motion caufes a change in the perfpiring 

 particles, and as the fpirits of the Dogs are 

 all engaged and attached to particles of luch 

 or fuch a figure, it is with difficulty they 

 come to be fenfible of, or attentive to, thole 

 of a different relifh. You will pardon the 

 expreffion, if I compare old Jouler> in this 

 cafe, to a Mathematician, who is fo intent 

 on the long perplexing ambages of the 

 problem before him, that he hears not the 

 clock or bell that fummons him to a new 

 employment. The alterations in a yielding 

 Hare are lefs frequently the occafion of 

 faults, becaufe they are more gradual, and, 

 like the fame rope, infenfibly tapering and 

 growing fmaller. But that alterations there 



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