144 T:!0UGHT3 upon HirNTINC?^ 



have it, they had not been out of the kennel for 

 many weeks before, and were fo riotous, that 

 Ihey ran after every thing they faw ; fnecp, cur- 

 dogs, and birds of all forts, as well as hares and 

 deer, I found, had been his amufement, all the 

 way along: however, he loft but one hound; 

 and when I aiked him what he thought of them, 

 he faid — " they could not fail of being good 

 " hounds, for they would hunt arty thingJ" 



In your nnfver to my lafi: letter, you aflc, cf 

 Tt'hat Service it can be to a huntfmain to be a good 

 groom? and, vHiether I think he will hunt hounds' 

 the belter for it ?— ^1 v/onder you did not afl^, 

 why he fliould be cleanly f—\ fhould be more at 

 a lols how to anfwer yon. My huntfman has 

 ghvays the cure of his own horfes; I never yet 

 tncw oiw. who did not think himfelf canable of 

 it; it is for that rcafon I vviih him to be a good 

 groonu 



You fay, that you cannot fee how z. huntfman 

 of genius can fpoil your fport, or hurt your hounds ? 

 . — 1 will tell you how : — by too much foul play 

 he frequently will catch a fos before he is half 

 tired ; > and by lifting his hounds too much, he' 

 will teach them to ihuffle. — An improper ufe of 

 the one may ijooil your fport ; too frequent ufe 

 of the otncr. muft hurt your hounds. 



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