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THOUGHTS 



ON 



HUNTING 



LETTER I. 



Bristol Hot-Wells, March 20, 1779. 



OU could not, my friend, have chosen a better 

 season than the present, to remind me of send- 

 ing you my Thoughts on Hunting ; for the accident 

 that brought me hither is likely to detain me some 

 time: besides, I have no longer a plea for not obeying 

 your commands. Hitherto, indeed, I had excused 

 myself, in hopes that some publication on the subject 

 might have rendered these Letters needless; but since 

 nothing of the kind, although so much wanted, has 

 appeared ; as I am now sufficiently unoccupied to 

 undertake the task, I shall not think it a trifling 

 subject, if you think it a necessary one : and I wish 

 that my own experience of the diversion may enable 

 me to answer the many questions which you are 

 pleased to propose concerning it. 



Knowing your partiality to rhyme, I could wish to 

 send you my thoughts in verse ; but as this would 

 take up more time, without answering your purpose 



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