142. THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



themfelves, nor fhould they be hallooed much ? 

 tvhen the hare doubles, they fhould hunt through 

 thofe doubles ; nor is a hare hunted fairly when 

 hunted otherwife. They fhould follow her every 

 flep fhc takes, as well over greafy fallows as 

 through flocks of fheep ; nor fhould they ever be 

 caft, but when nothing can be done without it. 

 I know a gentleman, a pleafant fportfman, but 

 a very irregular hare-hunter, who does not ex- 

 a61:ly follow the method here laid down. As his 

 method is very extraordinary I will relate it to 

 you : — His hound? are large and Heet ; they have 

 at times hunted every thing ; red deer, fallow 

 deer, fox, and hare ; and muft in their nature 

 have been mofl excellent, iince, notwithftanding 

 the variety of their game, they are ftill good. 

 When a hare is found fitting, he leldom fails to 

 give his hounds a view; and as the men all halloo, 

 and make what noifc they can, flie is half fright- 

 ened to death immediately. This done, he then 

 fends his whipper-in to ride after her, with par- 

 ticular dirc6lions not to let her get out of his 

 fight ; and he has found out, that this is the only 

 proper ufe of a whipper-in. If they come to a 

 piece of fallow, or a flock of fheep, the hounds 

 are not fufiered to hunt any longer, but are cap- 

 ped and hallooed as near to the hare as poffiblc; 

 by this time the poor devil is near her end, which' 

 the next view generally finifhes ; the fi:rongeft 

 hare, in this manner, feldom fianding twenty 



minutes ; 



