l6z THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



rate, as that directs ; he will, of courfe, draw up 

 the wind, for rcafons which I iliall give in another 

 place. — Now, if you can keep your brother 

 Iportfmen in order, and put any difcretion into 

 them, you are in luck ; they more frequently do 

 harm than good : if it be poffible, perfuade thofe 

 who wilh to halloo the fox off, to ftand quiet un- 

 der the cover fide, and on no account to halloo 

 him too foon ; if they do, he moll certainly will 

 turn back again : could you entice them all into 

 the cover, your fport, in all probability, would 

 not be the v^^orfc for it. 



How well the hounds fpread the cover ! the 

 huntfman, you fee, is quite deferted, and his 

 horfe, who fo lately had a crowd at his heels, has 

 not now one attendant left. How ileadily they 

 draw ! you hear not a fingle hound ; yet none are 

 idle. Is not this better than to be fubjeft to con- 

 tinual difappointment, from the eternal babbling 

 of unlleady hounds ? 



— — See ! how th.ey range 



Difpers'd, how bufily this way and that, 

 They crofs, examining with curious nofe 

 Each likely haunt. Hark ! on the drag I hear 

 Their doubtful notes, preluding to a cry 

 More nobly full, and fwell'd with every mouth." 



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