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a team of cart-horses. I had rather see them, 

 like the horses of the sun, all abreast. 



A friend of mine killed thirty-seven brace of 

 foxes in one season : twenty-nine of the foxes 

 were killed without any intermission. I must 

 tell you at the same time, that they were killed 

 with hounds bred from a pack of harriers ; nor 

 had they, I believe, a single skirter belonging to 

 them. There is a pack now in my neighbour- 

 hood, of all sorts and sizes, which seldom miss a 

 fox ; when they run, there is a long string of 

 them, and every fault is hit off by an old south- 

 ern hound. However, out of the last eighteen 

 foxes they hunted, they killed seventeen ; and I 

 have no doubt, but as they become more com- 

 plete, more foxes will escape from them. Packs 

 which are composed of hounds of various kinds 

 seldom run well together, nor do their tongues 

 harmonize, yet they generally, I think, kill most 

 foxes; but I must confess, that unless I like 

 their style of killing them, whatever may be 

 their success, I cannot be completely satisfied. 

 I once asked the famous Will Crane, how his 

 hounds behaved. " Very well, «ir," he replied : 

 "they never come to a fault, hut they spread 

 like a sky-rocket^ Thus it should always be. 

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