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upon any account, attempt it : for whilft 

 lie is myoping about, the Dogs throw up, 

 not one in twenty has his nofe to the 

 ground. If it happens to be a long dead 

 default, pay fome regard, Huntfman, to the 

 tender-nofed babbling Dog you difregardcd 

 in the morning; the delicacy of his noftrils 

 may be fufceptible of the fcent a long time 

 later than a ftancher Hound. You have 

 feid, fuchand fuch a Dog deferves hanging; 

 Le will open at nothing at all, fay you : but 

 beware, my friend, if it is not the contrary, 

 and owing to his fuperior excellence of 

 fcenting; for, as I have already obferved, a 

 Hare that relieved at twelve at night, the 

 tender Hound you condemn will challenge 

 cheerily next morning, and in the prefent 

 difheartening cafe, if he does but open, it 

 may encourage fome ftancher Hound to 

 run in and ftoop ; which, after a long tedi- 

 ous default, he would not otherwife do. I 

 have known Huntfmen fo diHrefled, to 

 make their Dogs try and floop (when it has 

 \>^&vi found w^hich way the Hare has baulked 

 them,) that they have rung an old Hound's 

 ears fo cleverly, he has roared as if he had 



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