THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 5^ 



vants there to exercife them properly, I found 

 ihern much inferior to fuch of their brethren as 

 ha.d the luck to furvive the many difficulties and 

 dangers they had undergone at their walks ; thefe 

 were afterwards equal to any thing, and afraid of 

 nothing; whilft thofe that had been nurfed with 

 {o much care were weakly and timid, and had 

 every difadvantage attending private education. 



I have often heard as an excufe for hounds not 

 hunting a cold icent, that they were too high hredi 

 I confeis, I know not what that means : but this 

 I know, that hounds are frequently too ill bred to 

 be of any fervice. Jt is judgment in the breeder, 

 and patience afterwards in the huntlrnan, that 

 make them hunt. 



Young hounds are commonly named when 

 firfl; put out, and fometimes indeed ridiculouflj 

 enough ; nor is it eafy, when you breed many, 

 to find fuitable or harmonious names for all ; 

 particularly as it is ufual to name all the whelps 

 of one litter with the fame letter, which (to be 

 fyftematically done) fliould alfo be the initial 

 letter of the dog that got them, or the bitch 

 that bred them. A baronet of my acquaintance, 

 a literal obferver of the above rule, fent three 

 young hounds of one litter to a friend, all their 

 names beginning, as he /aid, with the letter G — ^ 

 GowUfi Govialy and Galloper, 



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