X06 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



The obje6lions I have now made to the treat- 

 ment of young hounds by fome huntfmen, though 

 addreffed, my friend, to you, are general ol:)jec- 

 tions, and Ihould not perfonally offend you, I 

 know no man more juft, or more humane, than 

 yourfelf. The difapprobation you fo firongly 

 marked in your laft letter of the feverity ufed in 

 fome kennels, the noble animal we both of us 

 admire is much beholden to you for. Your in- 

 tention of being preknt yourfelf the firfl: time a 

 hound is flogged, to fee how your new whipper-in 

 behaves himfelf, is a pro jf of benevolence, which 

 the Italian author of the moll humane book,"* 

 could not fail to commend you for. Huntfmen 

 and whippersin ^e feldom fo unlucky as to have 

 your feelings ; yet cufrom, which authorifes them 

 to flog hounds unmercifully, does not do away 

 the barbarity of it. — A gentleman feeing a girl 

 fkinning eels alive, allced her, " if it was not 

 *' very cruel !" — " O not at all, Sir," replied the 

 girl, " they he vfed to it."' 



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