36 CHEAP HOUNDS, 



than five or six seasons; though there is no 

 saying, wrth certainty, what number of seasons 

 a hound will last. Like us, some of them have 

 better constitutions than others, and conse- 

 quently will bear more work ; and the duration 

 of all bodies depends as well on the usage they 

 meet with, as on the materials of which they 

 are made. 



You ask, whether you had not better buy a 

 complete pack at once, than be at the trouble of 

 breeding one? Certainly you had, if such an 

 opportunity should offer. It sometimes happens, 

 that hounds are to be bought for less money 

 than you could breed them. The gentleman to 

 whom my house formerly belonged had a most 

 famous pack of fox-hounds. His goods, &c. 

 were appraised and sold ; which, when the ap- 

 praiser had done, he was put in mind of the 

 hounds. — " Well, gentlemen," said he, " what 

 shall I appraise them at? a shilling a-piece ?'"'' 

 — " Oh ! it is too little !"— " Is it so.?" said the 

 appraiser : " why it is more than / would give 

 for them^ I assure you.'''' 



Hounds are not bought so cheap at Tatter- 

 saWs. 



