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this is too much, too fhort, and violent^ 

 nor is fuch fuccefs often to be expedted. 

 For though this kind of Dogs are much in 

 requeft among our younger Gentry, who take 

 out-running and out-riding their neighbours 

 to be the heft part of the fport ; yet it would 

 make one lick to be out with them in a 

 crofs morning, when the walk lies back- 

 ward, or the fcent low or falling. The 

 Huntfman rates, the Groom rides, the 

 ^Squire fwears, the whips crack; war-wing, 

 war-counter, war-{heep, p — take ye, the 

 d— 1 had ye, is the burden of their mufick. 

 Their high mettle makes them impatient 

 to drive the nail as it will go, rather than 

 flay to creep or Hoop, they pufh forward, at 

 every fume they catch, they crofs it, over- 

 run it, hunt backward, or hunt any thing 

 to force a trade : in fhort, in my opinion, it 

 is impolTible to make a good pack of thefe, 

 without the conflant difcipline of the whip, 

 without perpetually hunting them, and 

 hunting them down to tame their fury, and 

 quench their fire. 



There is yet another fort in great favour 

 with fmall Gentry, becaufe they eat but 



little : 



