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or riding hard ; but they are miftaken, and 

 fuch perfons, gentle or fimple, muft not be 

 offended if the Huntfman fwears at them, 

 he has a right to do fo. No tongue can be 

 allowed but his, nor, at this time, no foot 

 more forward than his own. 



A clofenefs on the Dogs, it is well 

 known, hurries them too much, being apt 

 of themfelves, in their firfl heat of mettle, 

 to over-fhoot the Game. Many hours fad 

 fport has happened from driving the Hounds 

 too faft, and confounding them with the 

 hollowing of the company, or a noify block- 

 head of a Huntfman or Whipper-in. 



As Pufs takes her circuit, judgment is 

 often made of her gender. A Buck gives 

 fufpicion by beating the hard paths, ftony 

 highways, and taking a ring of a large ex- 

 tent in proportion to the compafs of his 

 feed and exercife, which may be gueffed at, 

 from the quantity of ground the Dogs trail- 

 ed over : it being worthy of notice, that, in 

 th^ progrefs of the chace, a Hare v^ill go 

 over great part of the trailed land, and vifit 

 her works of the preceding night and morn- 

 ing, unlefs ihe takes endways, which^ after 



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