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fions, I have often declared Hare-hunting 

 has been mine. What contributed to my 

 liking it were, the early impreffions I re- 

 ceived in favour of the fport from a grand- 

 father and father, v^ho made it their particular 

 delight. I confefs to your Lordfliip the being 

 prejudiced fo much in its favour flill, that I 

 eileem few diverfions equal nor any pre-* 

 ferabie to it. The Buck, Stag, Hind, or 

 Fox chace, no doubt have their delights j 

 but of fuch fort as cannot heartily be en- 

 joyed, except by perfons of ample fortune 

 and circumftance, like your Lordfliip ; and 

 fuch indeed do, or feem chiefly to delight 

 in thofe fports, though many that purfue 

 them, on examination of their hearts, I dare 

 fay will be confcious they do it more from a 

 motive of affectation than real love. 



A lover of Hunting almoil: every man is, 

 or would be thought; but twenty in the 

 field after a Hare, my Lord, find more de- 

 light and fincere enjoyment than one jn 

 twenty in a Fox chace, the former confifting 

 of an endlefs variety of accidental delights, 

 the latter little more than hard riding, the 

 pleafure of clearing fome dangerous leap, 



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