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time : nor do I think it advisable to begin this, till the 

 pack have been out a few times by themselves, and 

 are gotten well in blood. I should also advise you to 

 take them the first day where they are most sure to 

 find ; as long rest makes all hounds riotous, and they 

 may do that en gaietd de coeur, which they would not 

 think of at another time. Let your hounds be low 

 in flesh when you begin to hunt : the ground is 

 generally hard at that season, and they are liable to 

 be shaken. 



If your covers be large, you will find the straight 

 horn of use ; and I am sorry to hear that you do not 

 approve of it. You ask me why I like it ? — not 

 as a musician, I can assure you. It signifies little, 

 in our way, what the noise is, as long as it is under- 

 stood. 



