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the cheer Is dainty, we may meet with 

 none hke it to-morrow. But rather, too 

 often before Nature is contented retire, mo- 

 lefted and alarmed in the night, to fome ad- 

 joined thicket, and there iinifli their repafl, 

 on the fhaded fpray or four herb ; happy in 

 their fafety and fohtude. Or fometimes, as 

 Nature dictates, when the fouthern tempeft 

 pours down the dreadful torrent, or the 

 chilling north fpreads the furface with his 

 filvered mantle, fit clofe in form, till better 

 times enfue 3 content with no repaft. 



Whether this opinion with thofe Sportf- 

 men who j udge of Hares immoderate eat- 

 ing by themfelves, and becaufc they have 

 experienced an impediment in their heels, 

 from a crammed belly, think Hares meet 

 with the fame, may be of any weight, I can- 

 not fay, nor do I care : I have a better opi- 

 nion of honefl faithful Nature's didiates, 

 than their idle whims and notions. As to 

 the other part offered, that low-land Hares 

 are tender footed, I proteft, I fmile at the 

 thought of fuch a fhallow opinion. Ten- 

 der feet in Dogs are owing to the foftnefs of 

 their foles, or that flefhy fubftance called 



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