THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING, 24 r 



game, yet I think, when it is indifcrimlnately 

 given, that hare-fmders are often too well paid, 

 I have known them frequently get more than a 

 guinea for a lingle hare. I myfelf have paid five 

 jQiillings in a morning for hares found fitting". 

 To makre our companions pay dearly for their 

 diverfion, and oftentimes fo much more than it 

 is worth ; to take from the pockets of men who 

 oftentimes can ill affbrd it, as much as would pay 

 for a good dinner afterwards, is, in my opinion, 

 an ungenerous cufiom ; and this confideratioii 

 induced me to collect but once, with my hounds,- 

 for the hare-finders. The money was afterwards 

 divided amongft them, and if they had lefs than 

 liaif a crown each, I myfelf fupplied the defici- 

 ency.' — An old mifcr, who had paid his fhilling,. 

 complained bitterly of it afterwards, and faid^ 

 *• he had been made to pay a Jliilllng far tivo penny - 

 ^^ ivorth of /port. ''^ 



"When the o-ame is found you cannot be too 

 quiet : the hare is an animal fo very timorous, 

 that ihe is frequently headed back, and your dogs 

 are liable to over-run the fcent at every infiant ; 

 it is beft, therefore, to keep a confiderable way 

 behind them, that they may have room to turn 

 as foon as they perceive they have loft the fcent ; 

 and, if treated in this manner, they will feldom 

 over-run it much. Your hounds, throtigh the 

 whole chace, fhould be left almofi entirely to 



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