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courfe will give lefs trouble in Hopping them. It 

 is a common practice with huntfmen to flog their 

 hounds moil unmercifully in the kennel : I have 

 already mentioned my difapprobation of it : 

 but if many of your hounds be obilinately rio- 

 tous,* you may with lefs impropriety put a live 

 hare into the kennel to them, flogging them as 

 often as they appproach her ; they will then have 

 fome notion, at leafl, for what they are beaten : 

 but let me entreat you, before this charivari-^ 

 begins, to draft off your hounds ; an animal to 

 whom we owe fo much good diverfion fhould not 

 be ill ufed unneceffarily. When a hare is put 

 into the kennel, the huntfman and both the 

 whippers-in fhould be prefent ; and the whippers- 

 in fhould flog every hound, calling him by his 

 name, and rateing him as often as he is near the 

 hare ; and, upon this occafion, they cannot cut 

 them too hard, or rate them too much. When- 



* This paflage has alfo been thought deferving of cenfure, 

 though its motive is humane. By thefe means, the difobedient 

 are taught obedience, and a more general punifhment prevented; 

 which the efFefl of bad example might otherwife make ne- 

 celTary. 



f A confiifion arifing from a variety of noifes. It is a cuf- 

 tom in France, and in Switzerland, if a woman marry fooner 

 than is ufual after the death of her huftaild ; or a woman get 

 the better ui her hufband when attempting to chaftife her, and 

 return the beating with iritereft — the neighbours give them a 

 tharivari — a kind of concert compofed of tongs, fire-lhovJs, 

 kettles, brafs pans, &c. &c, 



they 



