Hounds, ^y 



nation and dimate, how Improbable may it 

 feem that the fafhionable Nymph, who is 

 not able to make a vifit of thirty yards with- 

 out a chair or eoach, a 'Squire to lead her, 

 or a cane to fupport her, fhould be caft in 

 the fame mo^.ild with the Farmer's Daughter ? 

 Or that the flurdy Champions of Queen 

 Befs's days, ihould be but the great grand- 

 fathers of that puny race, which is to be 

 feen fwarming in all modern public Affem* 

 blies, unlefs it be at Church ? 



But is there not a more fubftantial dif- 

 tindion between Curs and Greyhoiinds, 

 Turnfpits and Beagles ? I can hardly grant 

 it ; or, if there be, it will be ealily ac- 

 counted for by the confiderations above, by 

 giving jufl allowance for food and climate, 

 by remembering that thefe animals are fre- 

 quent breeders, that they generate at the 

 choice and difcretion of their mafters, that 

 the fancy or curiolity of the fbns of men 

 have been five thoufand years mixing and 

 altering, improving or fpoiling them. Th^ 

 Butcher fends for the famous Dog with the 

 filver collar to couple with his favourite, 

 and rears up the whelp with blood and 

 G 4 garbage. 



