4a8 SUPPLEMENT. 



muscles, that, producing an hourly increas- 

 ing weakness of the loins, seemed to indicate 

 the approach of inevitable dissolution ; the 

 hinder parts had absolutely declined, and could 

 no longer perform their office ; when hfted up 

 he could not stand without support, his hind 

 legs sinking under him ; and, by the frequent 

 twitchings and convulsive spasms, he seem- 

 ed encountering the agonies of vnmediate 

 death. 



No refinement of thought, no sublimity of 

 expression, is necessary to convey a descrip- 

 tion of the present dilemma. Every sports- 

 man, whose mind is embellished by the nicer 

 sensations, and whose heart is instinctively 

 open to alleviate the sufferings of these part- 

 ners of, and contributors to, our pleasures, 

 these nocturnal protectors of our property, 

 ^s well as the many (though no sportsmen) 

 who have their favourites of the different 

 species, and are no strangers to their attach-- 

 ment, jidelity, and gratitude, have no doubt, 

 some time or other, stood in a similar predica- 

 ment. 



Convinced, by the state of the extended 

 subject, nothing could be expected h\xi death. 



