tHOUGHTS UPON HUNTING, t^^ 



heen often caught, it will be iiecefTary to drive 

 them in with fpaniels. Should this be the cafe^, 

 you will find them very thick round the warren; 

 for the warren-hares will be unwilling to leave 

 it, and when diflurbed by dogs will immediately 

 go in. 



If you turn them out before greyhounds, you 

 cannot give them too much law ; if before 

 hounds, you cannot give them too little; for rea- 

 fons which 1 will prefently add. Though hares, 

 as I told you before, never run fo well before 

 hounds as when they do not know where they 

 are, yet, before greyhounds, it is the reverfe; 

 and 3^oijr trap- hares, to run well, fhould always 

 be turned out within their knowledge : they are 

 naturally timid, and are eafily diflieartenedj wheii 

 they have no point to make to for fafety. 



If you turn out any before your houndsj 

 (which, if it be not your wifh, I fhall by no 

 means recommend) give them not much time, 

 but lay on your hounds as foon as they are out 

 of view ; if you do not, they will be likely to 

 flop, which is oftentimes fatal. Views are at all 

 times to be avoided, but particularly with trap- 

 hares; for, as thefe know not where they are, 

 the hounds have too great an advantage over 

 them. It is beft to turn them down the wind; 

 .Ihey hear the hounds better, and feldom turn 

 J again. 



