t-HOUGHTS UPON HlTNt-ING. tj.^' 



of tlie year. If your covers be fmal!^ or fucli 

 from which a fox cannot break unfeen, then 

 noife can do no hurt ; if you draw at a late hour, 

 and when there is no drag, then the more the 

 cover is diilurbed the better; the more likely you 

 are to find. Late in the feafon foxes are wild, 

 particularly in covers that are often hunted. If 

 you do not draw quietly, he will ibmetimes get 

 too much the itart of you t when you have any 

 fufpicion of this, fend on a whipper-in to the 

 oppofite fide of the cover before you throw in 

 your hounds. With regard to the drawing up 

 the wind, that is much more material. You never 

 fail to give the wind to a pointer and fetter ; why 

 not to a hound ? — Befides, the fox, if you dravf 

 up the wind, does not hear you coming ; and 

 your hounds, by this means, are never out o( 

 your hearing; befides, fhould he turn down the 

 wind, as mofl probably he will, it lets them all in, 

 Suppofe yourfelf a6ling dire6fly contrary to this^ 

 and then fee what is likely to be the confequence. 



You think I am too fevere on ray brother 

 fportfmen : if more fo than they deferve, I am 

 forry for it. I know many gentlemen who are 

 excellent fportfmen, yet, I am forry to fay, the- 

 greater number of thofe who ride after hounds 

 are not ; and it is thofe only whom I allude to.. 

 Few gentlemen will take any pains, (ew of them, 

 will ftop a hound, though he fhould run riot-. 



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