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her ; they will then have some notion, at least, 

 for what they are beaten : but let me entreat 

 you, before this charivari* begins, to draft off 

 your steady hounds. An animal to whom we 

 owe so much good diversion should not be ill 

 used unnecessarily. When a hare is put into 

 the kennel, the huntsman and both the whip- 

 pers-in should be present, and the whippers-in 

 should flog every hound, calling him by his ■ 

 name, and rating him as often as he is near the 

 hare ; and upon this occasion they cannot cut 

 them too hard, or rate them too much. When 

 they think they have chastised them enough, the 

 hare should then be taken away, the huntsman 

 should halloo off his hounds, and the whippers- 

 in should rate them to him. If any one loves 

 hare more than the rest, you may tie a dead one 

 round his neck, flogging him and rating him at 

 the same time. This possibly may make him 

 ashamed of it. I never bought a lot of hounds 

 in my life that were not obliged to undergo this 



* A confusion arising from a variety of noises. It is a 

 custom in France and in Switzerland, if a woman marry 

 sooner tiian is usual after tlie death of her husband, or a 

 woman get the better of her husband when attempting to 

 chastise her, and return the beating Avith interest — the 

 neighbours give them a charivari ; a kind of concert, com- 

 posed of tongs, fire-shovels, kettles, brass pans, &c. &c. 



