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Another thing I would advlfe my friends, 

 is to hang up every liar and chanter, not 

 fparing even thofe that are filly and trifling, 

 w^ithout nofe or fagacity. It is common 

 enough in numerous kennels to keep fome 

 for their mufic or beauty, but this is per- 

 fe<flly wrong. It is a certain maxim that 

 every Dog which does no good, does a 

 great deal of hurt ; they ferve only to foil 

 the ground, and confound the fcent; to 

 fcamper before and interrupt their betters in 

 the moil difficult points. And I may ven- 

 ture to affirm, by long experience, that four 

 or five couple, all good and trujfly Hounds, 

 will do more execution than thirty or forty, 

 where a third of them are eager and head- 

 flrong, and, like coxcombs among men, 

 noify in doing nothing. 



Above all I abhor joining with flrangers, 

 for this is the way to fpoil and debauch the 

 flanchefl Hounds, to turn the beft-mettled 

 into mad-headed gallopers, liars and chat- 

 terers, and to put them on nothing but out- 

 running their rivals, and over-running the 

 fcent. The emulation of leading (in Dogs 

 and their Mailers) has been the utmoft 

 ruin of many a good cry. Nor are flrangs 

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