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minutes; but, my friend fays, a hare Is good 

 eating, and he therefore thinks, that he cannot 

 kill too many of them. By what Martial fays, 

 I fuppofe he was of the fame opinion, 



" Inter quadrupedes gloria prima lepus." 



A propos to eating them. — I muft tell you, that 

 in the Encyclopedic, a book of univerfal know- 

 ledge, where, of courfe, I expelled to iind fome- 

 thing on hunting, which might be of fervice to 

 you, as a fportfman, to know, I found the fol^ 

 lowing advice about the dreffing of a hare, v/hich. 

 may be of ufe to your cook ; and the regard 

 I have for your health will not fuffer me to con- 

 ceal it from vou. — "• 0?i vianze le levraut roti dans 

 *' qicJques provinces du rojaume, en Gajcogne et en 

 *' Languedoc, par exemph^ avec unefance compofee 

 " de v'maigre et defucre, qui eft mauvaife, malfaine 

 *'^ en foi eJfentieJlement y mais qui ejtfurtoizt abomina-^ 

 *' hie pour tons ceux qui riy font pas accoufumes.^* 

 You, without doubt, therefore, will think your- 

 felf obliged to the authors of the Encyclopedic 

 for their kind and friciidly information. 



Having heard of a fmall pack of beagles to be 

 difpofed of in Derbyfliire, I fent rny coachman^ 

 the perfon whom I could at that time beft Ipare, 

 to fetch them. It was a long journey, and not 

 having been ufed to hounds, he had fome trouble 

 in getting them along ; alfo, as ill-luck would 



have 



