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CHAP. VII. 



Peculiarities. — Hints ou Leaping. — Armed for either Field. — 

 A Bargain. — Going further to fare worse. — A pleasant Ac- 

 quaintance. — Biding the Time. — Monsieur Tonson again.— 

 Adieu. 



" That old Mullins/' said my friend (wlien we 

 were alone), "is most certainly a curious fellow : 

 do you call him a good rider ? '' 



'' Notliing bordering on it/' said I, " and but 

 few huntsmen to harriers are, while many hunts- 

 men and whips to fox-hounds are first-rate in this 

 particular : and why they are so arises from various 

 causes ; in the first place, though all hounds re- 

 quire attention, fox-hounds do not require that 

 unremitting attention that hare-hounds do; the 

 scent of the fox is stronger ; he runs beyond all 

 comparison straighter ; for if even, as is sometimes 

 the case, he gets back to Avhere he was found, or 

 near it, he does this as it were octagonally ; he 

 runs straight from point to point ; he is, we know, 

 as wily as the hare, but he does not show it in 

 the same Avay in running; he does not have 

 recourse to her dodges and doublings, nor does he 

 run foil near so much. The huntsman to a pack 



