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paths, they become far more tender-footed, 

 and unfit to bear hard running, than the up- 

 hill Hare, that ufes the hard highways and 

 dry turf, which is to be met with, three 

 parts of the year, on the downs or hilly 

 land. 



As to the iiril: of fuch Hunters, or Writ- 

 ers fo feeming plain reafons, I beg their 

 pardpn, but moft abfolutely difagree with 

 their opinion, it being more plain and natu- 

 ral to believe, fuch Hares never fill them- 

 felves too full, as they call it. Unerring 

 Nature, doubtlefs, inftruds them better 

 than to over-eat themfelves, or gorge {o 

 much to retard them in their celerity, which 

 is their only defence and prefervation j it 

 cannot be I am pofitive. The poor fearful 

 creatures fatisfy Nature, and no more; their 

 time of feeding begins according to the fea- 

 fon, and ends about the certain time i after- 

 wards a proper fpace is duly employed in 

 drying, airing, exercifmg, and fporting, 

 till the approach of morning warns them to 

 feek or return to their proper retirements. 



They do not glutton on their food, like 



the wife Heads that hunt them. Eat, for 



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