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I will relate it to you : — His hounds are large and 

 fleet : they have at times hunted every thing ; red 

 deer, fallow deer, fox, and hare ; and must in their 

 nature have been most excellent ; since, notwithstand- 

 ing the variety of their game, they are still good. 

 When a hare is found sitting, he seldom fails to give 

 his hounds a view ; and as the men all halloo, and 

 make what noise they can, she is half frightened to 

 death immediately. This done, he then sends his 

 whipper-in to ride after her, with particular directions 

 not to let her get out of his sight : and he has found 

 out that this is the only proper use of a whipper-in. 

 If they come to a piece of fallow, or a flock of sheep, 

 the hounds are not suffered to hunt any longer, but are 

 capped and hallooed as near to the hare as possible : 

 by this time the poor devil is near her end, which the 

 next view generally finishes ; the strongest hare, in 

 this manner, seldom standing twenty minutes. But 

 my friend says, a hare is good eating, and he there- 

 fore thinks that he cannot kill too many of them. 

 By what Martial says, I suppose he was of the same 

 opinion : 



Inter quadrupedes gloria prima lepus. 



A-propos to eating them — I must tell you, that in 

 the Ency dope" die, a book of universal knowledge, where, 

 of course, I expected to find something on hunting, 

 which it might be of service to you, as a sportsman, 

 to know, I found the following advice about the dress- 

 ing of a hare, which may be of use to your cook ; and 

 the regard I have for your health will not suffer me to 

 conceal it from you : — " On mange le levrazit roti dans 



