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again. Hounds, for this buHncfs, lliould not be 

 too fleet. Thefe hares run flruight, and make 

 no doubles ; tbey leave a llrong fccnt, and have 

 other objections in common with animals turned 

 out before hounds: they may give you a gallop, 

 they will, hovv^evcr, Ihew but little hunting. — 

 The hounds are to be hunted like a pack of fox- 

 hounds, as a trap -hare runs very much in the 

 fame manner, and \vi]\ even top the hedges. 

 What I fnould prefer to catching the hares in 

 traps, would be, a warren in the midit of an 

 o|)en country, which micrht be flopped clofe on 

 hunting-days. This would fupply the wliolc 

 country with hares, which, after one turn round 

 the warren, would mofl probably run ftraight at 

 end. The number of hares which a warren will 

 fupply is hardly to be conceived ; I fcldom turned 

 out lefs in one year than thirty brace of trap- 

 hares, befides many otliers killed in the envi- 

 rons, of vv'hich no account was taken. My war-- 

 ren is a wood of near thirty acres ; one of half 

 the lizc would anfwer the purpofc perhaps as 

 well. Mine is cut out into many walks; a 

 fmaller warren fhould have only one, and tJmf 

 round the outfide of it. No dog fliould ever be 

 fuffered to go into it, and traps fliould be con- 

 llantly fet for floats and polecats. It is faid par- 

 fiey makes hares ftrong ; they certainly are very 

 fond of eating it : it therefore cannot be amifs to 



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