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this, iill the pack have been out a (cw times by 

 themfelves, and are gotten well in blood. I 

 ihould alio advife you to take them the firit day 

 where they are moft fure to find ; as long refl 

 makes all hounds riotous, and they may do that 

 en gaiete de cmir^ which they would not think of at 

 another time. Let ^^our hounds be low in flefh, 

 when you begin to hunt ; the ground is generally 

 hard at that lealbn, and they are liable to be 

 ihaken. 



If your covers be large, you will find the flrait 

 horn of ufe, and I am forry to hear that you do 

 not approve of it. — You afk me why I like it ? — 

 not as a muftcian^ I can afTure you. — It lignifies 

 little in our way what the noife is, as long as it 

 ^s underftood. 



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