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7b THOtGHTS trPON HUNTING. 



He Is, without doubt, of tlie fame opinion with 

 a fat old gentleman I one day overtook upon the 

 road, who, after having alked n:ie, " how many 

 " tbx«s we ufually killed in one day — why I did 

 " not hunt hare rather than fox, as the was bet- 

 " ter to eat ?" — he concluded, faying, " there is 

 " but one part of hunting I likcs-*-iV 7nakes one 

 " very hungry T 



There are two things, which I particularly re- 

 commend to you; the one is, to make your hounds 

 ileady, the other, to make them all draw. Many 

 huntfmen are fond of having them at their horfes 

 heels ; but, believe rne, they never can get fo 

 well, or fo foon together, as when they fpread 

 the cover : betides, 1 have often known, when 

 there have been only a few finders, that they 

 have found their fox, gone down the wind, and 

 been heard of no more that day. 



Never take out an unfleady old hound ; young 

 ones properly awed from riot, and that will hop 

 at a rate, may be put into the pack, a few at a 

 time ; but an old hound that is vicious fliould 

 not efcape hanging ; let him be ever fo good in 

 other refpe6ls I will not excuie him ; for a pack 

 mufl be wretched indeed that can Hand in need 

 of fuch affiftance. 



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