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his example, and the winged tribe, into whatever quarter they flew, were sure of 

 meeting with instant death. I was struck with the tranquillity of these stationary 

 Dogs, for, notwithstanding the instinct by which they were spurred on, not one of 

 them quitted his post ; but the rest ran about in the pursuit of the Game. The 

 scene was now changed, a Hare started up from a bush, the Dogs pursued, and 

 while the former made a thousand turnings in order to escape, she every where 

 found an opponent ; she however often defeated the Greyhounds, and I admired, in 

 such cases, the sagacity of these animals, which disdaining the assistance of those 

 that were young and unexperienced, consequently liable to be deceived, waited 

 until some of the cunning old ones opened the way for them ; and then the whole 

 plain was in motion. When the poor animal was just ready to become a prey to 

 its enemies, the Governor rushed forward, and throwing a stick which he held in 

 his hand, before the Greyhounds, they all stopped, and not one ventured to pass 

 this signal. One of the swift Greyhounds being then let loose, pursued the Hare, 

 and having come up with it, carried it back, and jumping upon the neck of the 

 Governor's Horse, placed it before him. The Governor took it in his arms, and 

 delivering it to one of his officers, gave him orders, if it continued alive, to shut 

 it up in his Park, where he maintains a great many prisoners of the same kind. I 

 admired above all, the discipline of the Greyhounds, and the humanity of the 

 Governor, who thought it his duty to preserve an animal which had afforded him 

 so much pleasure. 



We admire, equally with our Traveller, the steady discipline of the stop Grey- 

 hounds, beside having another subject of at least equal admiration in both the 

 Governor and the Traveller's notions of humanity. We conceive that more real 

 humanity would have been shewn, in knocking instantly on the head, the poor, 

 frighted, and probably lacerated victim, than to reserve it for future sufferings. 



