THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. lOt 



he will commit the fame fault again, if he has 

 been accuftomcd to be guilty of it. 



Obedience, you very rightly obferve, is a ne- 

 ceffary quality in a hound, for he is ufelefs with- 

 out it. It is, therefore, an excellent principle 

 for a huntfman to {et out upon ; yet, good as it is, 

 I think it may be carried too far. I would not 

 have him infill on too much, or torment his 

 hounds inal-ci-propos, by forcibly exacting from 

 them what is not abfolutely neceffary to your dl - 

 verfion. You fay, he intends to enter your hounds 

 at hare : — is it to teach them obedience ? Does 

 he mean to encourage vice in them for the fake 

 of corre6ling it afterwards ? — I have heard, in- 

 deed, that the way to make hounds fteady from 

 hare, is to enter them at hare:* that is, to en- 

 courage them to hunt her. The belief of fo 

 flrange a paradox requires more faith than I can 

 pretend to. 



It concerns rac to be under the neceflity of dif^ 

 fering from you in opinion ; but iince it cannot 

 now be helped, wc will purfue the fubjecV, and 

 examine it throughout. Permit me then to afk 



* In proper hands either method may do. The method 

 here propofed feems beft fuited to fox-hounds in general, a? 

 well as to thofe who have the direction of them. The talents 

 of fome men are fuperior to all rules ; nor i? their fuccefs any 

 pofitive proof of the g0(^dnefs cf their method. 



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