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the hounds have too great an advantage over^ 

 them. It is best to turn them down the wind ; 

 they hear the hounds better, and seldom turn 

 again. Hounds for this business should not be 

 too fleet. These hares run straight, and make 

 no doubles ; they leave a strong scent, and have 

 other objections in common with animals turned 

 out before hounds : they may give you a gallop, 

 but they will show but little hunting. The 

 hounds are to be hunted like a pack of fox-hounds, 

 as a trap-hare runs very much in the same man- 

 ner, and will even top the hedges. What I 

 should prefer to catching the hares in traps would 

 be a warren in the midst of an open country, 

 which might be stopped close on hunting-days. 

 This would supply the whole country with hares, 

 which, after one turn round the warren, would 

 most probably run straight an end. The num- 

 ber of hares a warren would supply is hardly to 

 be conceived ; I seldom turned out less in one 

 year than thirty brace of trap-hares, besides a 

 great many more killed in the environs, of which 

 no account was taken. My warren is a wood of 

 near thirty acres ; one of half the size would 

 answer the purpose to the full as well. Mine 

 is cut out into many walks; a smaller warren 

 should have only one, and that round the out- 



