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progrefs, hut inevitably throw them out, be- 

 fore they could repair their lofs, if the hounds 

 were then croffing a country. 



If horfcs have not fix or eight miles to 

 the hounds on the morning of hunting, 

 they fhould be walked at lealt an hour, or 

 hour and half, before they appear at the 

 place of meeting; the conliftency of their 

 having fufEcient time to unload the frame 

 by frequency of evacuation, has been fo fully 

 explained under the article of exercife, and 

 its palpable utility muft be fo forcibly ftriking 

 to every perfon at all convinced of its efFefts, 

 that it cannot poflibly require any additional 

 elucidation. 



Suppofing ourfdves arrived at that unful-* 

 lied feat of unanimit)' the place appointed, 

 whether throwing into covert for a fox, or 

 turning out the deer ; every fportfman will 

 acknowledge it may be juftly deemed the 

 critical moment, v/ben the powers of ex- 

 hilaration nearly exceeds the limits of pre- 

 fcription, and we *' mofi: wonder how our 

 reafon holds*'* This is the crifis that too 

 frequently deprives the juvenile rider (in 



z his 



