THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. *^^ 



a few at a time, and begin to chaftife fuch as 

 offer to run after them ; but you will foon find 

 that the cry of ivare Jheep will flop them fufhci- 

 ently without the whip ; and the lefs this is ufed 

 the better. With proper care and attention you 

 will foon make them alliamed of it, but if once 

 fuffered to tafte the blood, you may find it diiR- 

 cult to reclaim them. Various are the methods 

 ufed to break fuch dogs from fheep ; fome will 

 couple them to a ram, but that is breaking them 

 with a vengeance ; you had better hang thcni. — A 

 late lord of rny acquaintance, who had heard of this 

 method, and whofe whole pack had been often 

 guilty of killing fhecp, determined to puniili them, 

 and to that intent put the largefl ram he could 

 find into his kennel. The men with their whips 

 and voices, and the ram with his horns, loon put 

 the whole kennel into confufion and difmay, 

 and the hounds and the ram were then left to- 

 gether. Meeting a friend foon after, " come," 

 fays he, " com.e with me to the kennel, and fcs 

 " what rare fport the ram makes among the 

 *' hounds; the old fellow lays about him floutly, 

 " I afiure you — egad he trims them — there is 

 *' not a dog dares look him in the face." — His 

 friend, who is a compaffionate man, pitied the 

 hounds exceedingly, and alked, if he was not 

 afraid that fome of tliem might be fpoiled : — 

 *' No, d— n them," faid he, " they delervc it, 

 "■ and let them fulFer." — On they went — all vvas 



q uiet 



