110 Art and Pleafure 



whole hunt. For the fences * once leaped, 

 or the gates once opened, makes a clear paf- 

 fage oftentimes for every turn fhe takes af- 

 terwards. 



The cafe is otherwife with Stag, Buck, 

 or Fox ; when either is on foot, ten to one, 

 after a few turns, if he does not take end 

 ways, and lead the keen Sportfman into con- 

 tinued new unexperienced dangers. If he is 

 unhorfed, there lies the hero of the day, un- 

 diftinguiflied, unafTifted; if not, he has the 

 pleafure at the end of the chace of finding 

 himfelf a dozen miles perhaps from his own 

 home. 



The former of thefe advantages made a 

 noble Peer turn off the finefl: kennel Eng- 

 land boafted. The bell: of Conforts to this 

 day deplores her Silurian Prince, who, by a . 

 broken rib, was cut off in the flower of his 

 age. 



Obferve the nimble Harrier, my Lord, 

 continues the double, on foot or horfeback, 

 according as age, ability, or fortune im- 



* The fences being leaped can be of no ufe to thofe that - 

 follow ; he ihould have faid, broken down. 



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