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had answered all your questions : you then 

 would have received but one letter from me, — 

 to refer you to him. That no other writer 

 should have followed his steps, may thus, 

 I think, be accounted for : — those gentle- 

 men who make a profession of writing live 

 chiefly in town, consequently cannot be sup- 

 posed to know much of hunting ; and those 

 who do know any thing of it are either ser- 

 vants who cannot write, or country gentlemen 

 who will not give themselves the trouble. How- 

 ever, I have met with some curious remarks, 

 which I cannot help communicating to you. 

 One author tells us, that, " coursing is more 

 agreeable than hunting, because it is sooner 

 over ; *" — that " a terrier is a mongrel grey- 

 hound ; " — and that " dogs have often coughs 

 from eating Jtsh-hones."" 



Another (a French author) advises us to 

 give a horse, after hunting, " a soup made 

 of bread and wine, and an onion."" I fear an 

 English groom would eat the onion, and drink 

 the wine. 



The same author has also a very particular 

 method of catching rabbits, which you will 

 please to take in his own words : he calls it— 

 Chasse du lapiii a Vtcrevisse. " Cette chasse 



