J 5 S trailing and Startlngy 



withflanding the majority may be againR- 

 me, I confefs myfelf prejudiced in favour 

 of the latter. 



If the Hounds challenge on the relief, it 

 is a point of judgment not to let them puz- 

 zle and flick, but to rate them together, 

 and to make it good round the fences the 

 fooner the better. Now the Huntfman 

 mufl depend abfolutely upon his Dogs -, 

 the tender nofed Hound generally hits it 

 iirll, and is very often unjuflly deemed a 

 babbler, becaufe a tougher Dog does not 

 make good what he opens upon i whereas 

 the difference too often is, that one Hound's 

 nofe is fo exquifitely delicate, as to enjoy a 

 fcent twice as flale as another. 



Obferve Damfel, or loquacious Dainty, 

 open cheerily, the whole pack run in, not 

 one, for want of equal talents, approves. 

 But as they proceed to warmer fcent, if 

 Truman or Ruler (ftanch old Counfellors, 

 never known to give opinion, but certainty, 

 the efFed: of long experience) gravely un- 

 dertake to perufe the cafe, and, on due 

 coniideration, challenge, but in fingle notes, 

 the whole kennel (in fcience Brethren and 



CoUegues) 



