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as iTiay be occasioned on your's.* The language 

 we ule to them to convey our meaning fhould 

 never vary ; flill lefs fhould wc alter the very 

 meaning of the terms we ufe. "Would it not be 

 abfurd to encourage when we mean to rate ? and 

 if we did, could we expecl to be obeyed ? You 

 will not deny this, and yet you are guilty of no 

 lefs an inconliftency, when you encourage your 

 hounds to run a fcent to-day, which you know, 

 at the fame time, you muft be obliged to break 

 them from to-morrow — is it not running counter 

 to juflice and to rcalbn ? 



I confefs there is fome ufe in hunting young 

 hounds, where you can eafily command them; 

 but even this you may pay too dearly for. Enter 

 your hounds in fmall covers, or in fuch large 

 ones as have ridings cut in them ; whippers-ia 

 can then get at them, can always fee what they 

 are at, and I have no doubt that you may have a 

 pack of fox-hounds ready to fox by this means, 

 without adopting lb prepofterous a method as 

 that of firft making have-hunters of them. You 

 will find, that hounds thus taught what game 

 they are to hunt, and what they arc not, will 



* Were huntfmen to fcream continually to their hounds, 

 ufing the fame halloo whether they were drawing, carting, or 

 running, the hounds could not underftand them, and probably 

 U'ould fhew, on every occafion, as little attention to them as 

 they would deferve. 



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