LETTER XIII. 



IN some of the preceding Letters, we have, I 

 think, settled the business of the kennel in all its 

 parts ; and determined what should be the number, 

 and what the qualifications, of the attendants on the 

 hounds : we also agree in opinion, that a pack should 

 consist of about twenty-five couple : I shall now 

 proceed to give some account of the use of them. 

 You desire that I would be as particular as if you 

 were to hunt the hounds yourself. To obey you, 

 therefore, I think I had better send you a description 

 of an imaginary chase ; in which I shall be at liberty 

 to describe such events as probably may happen, and 

 to which your present inquiries seem most to lead : a 

 further and more circumstantial explanation of them 

 will necessarily become the subject of my future 

 Letters. I am, at the same time, well aware of the 

 difficulties attending such an undertaking. A fox- 

 chase is not easy to be described ; yet, as even a faint 

 description of it may serve, to a certain degree, as an 

 answer to the various questions which you are 

 pleased to make concerning that diversion, I shall 

 prosecute my attempt in such a manner as I think 

 may suit your purpose best. As I fear it may read 

 ill, it shall not be long. A gentleman, to whose 



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