A HINT TO SPORTSMEN. 155 



a good dog spoiled by it. In open ground speak 

 to them first ; you may afterwards ride over 

 them, if you please ; but in roads and paths 

 they frequently cannot get out of your way : it 

 surely then is your business either to stop your 

 horse, or break the way for them ; and the not 

 doing it, give me leave to say, is absurd and 

 cruel ; nor can that man be called a good sports- 

 man who thus wantonly destroys his own sport. 

 Indeed, good sportsmen seldom ride on the line 

 of the tail hounds. 



You ask how my warren hares are caught .'* 

 It shall be the subject of my next letter. 



