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You would have been better pleased, I make no doubt, if the learned gen- 

 tleman had instructed you how to hunt him, rather than when to eat him. 



I shall end this Letter with an anecdote of a late huntsman of mine, 

 who was a great slip-slop, and always called successively successfully : 

 One day, when he had been out with the young hounds, I sent for him in, 

 and asked him, What sport he had had ? and, How the hounds behaved ? 

 ' Very great sport, Sir, and no hounds could behave any better.' ' Did 

 you run him long ? ' ' They ran him, and please your honour, upwards of 

 three hours successfully.' ' So, then, you did kill him ? ' ' Oh, no, Sir, 

 we lost him at last.' 



