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iiue, whether long or fhort. This information, 

 therefore, if properly attended to by the huntf- 

 man, may be of me to him in his cafts. 



When they make their double on a high road^, 

 or dry path, and then leave it with a fpring, it is 

 often the occafion of a long fault; the fpring 

 which a hare makes on thefe occafions is hardly 

 to be credited, any more than is her ingenuity 

 in making it; both are wonderful! 



*' '■ let cavillers deny 



That bi*utes have reafon ; fure 'tis fomething more: 

 *Tis Heaven direfts and ftratagems iiifpire, 

 Beyond the fhort extent of human thought." 



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She frequently, after running a path a coniider- 

 able way, will make a double, and then flop till 

 the hounds have paft her; fhe will then fteal 

 away as fecretly as Ihe can, and return the fame 

 way fhe came. This is the greateft of all trials 

 for hounds. It is fo hot a foil, that in the beft 

 packs there are not many hounds that can hunt 

 it ; you muH follow thofe hounds that can, and 

 try to hit her off where Ihe breaks her foil, which 

 in all probability flie will foon do, as fhe now 

 flatters herfelf fhe is fecure. When the fcent 

 lies bad in covef, fhe will fometimes feem to 

 hunt the hounds. 



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