TKOUGHTS UFO\" HUNTIKG. 2,^ 



If liandfome withall, they are then perfect. With 

 resfard to their beina; lizeable, what Somervilc 

 fays, is lb much in your own way, that I fhali 

 fend it you. — 



*' As fome brave captain, curious and cvaft, 



By his fix'd ftandard forms in equal ranks 



His gay battalion, as one man they move 



Step after ftep, their fize the fame, their arms 



Far-gleaming, dart the fame united blaze ; 



Reviewing generals his merit own ; 



How regular ! how juft ! and all his cares 



Are well repaid, if mighty George approve. 



So model thou thy pack, if honour touch 



Thv generous foul, and the world's juft applaufe." 



There are neceffary points in the fliape of a 

 hound, which ought always to be attended to by 

 a fportfman ; for, if he be not of a perfect fym- 

 metry, he will neither run fafl, nor bear much 

 work : he has much to undergo, and fhould have 

 flrength proportioned to it. — Let his legs be 

 ftraight as arrows ; his feet round, and not too 

 large ; his flioulders back ; his breaft rather wide 

 than narrow ; his chefl deep ; his back broad ; 

 his head fmall : liis neck thin ; his tail thick and 

 brufliy ; if he carry it well, fo much the better: 

 This lafl point, however trifling it may appear to 

 you, gave rife to a very odd queflion : A gentle- 

 man, (not much acquainted with hounds) as we 

 were hunting together the other day, faid, " I 

 I " obferve, 



