THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 15*? 



fow fome about the warren, as it may be the 

 means of keeping your hares more at home. 



I had once fome converfation with a gentleman 

 about the running of my trap- hares, who faid he 

 had been told that catching a hare, and tying a 

 pece of r'lhhon to her ear, was a fure way to make 

 her run Jira'it.—\ make no doubt of it— -and fo 

 would a canijler tyed to her tail. 



I am forry you fhould think T began my firit 

 letter on the fubjecl of hare-hunting in a manner 

 that might offend any of my brother fportfmen. 

 It was not hare-hunting I meant to depreciate, but 

 the country I had hunted hare in. — It is good di- 

 verfion in a good country : — you are always cer- 

 tain of fport ; and if you really love to fee your 

 hounds hunt ; the hare, when properly hunted, 

 will fhew you more of it, than any other animal. 



You afk me, what is the right time to leave off 

 hare-hunting r — You fhould be guided in that 

 by the feafon : you fnould never hunt after 

 March ; and, if the feafon be forward, you fhould 

 leave off fooner. 



Having now fo confiderably exceeded tlie plan 

 I firft propofed, you may wonder, if I omit to fay 

 anything oi Jlag-huntwg, Believe me, if I do, 

 it will not be for want of refpecl ; but becaufe I 



have 



