THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. I97 



have any appetite to eat him, longer than whilft 

 they are angry with him. 



When two packs of fox-hounds run together, 

 and they kill the fox, the pack that found hun is 

 entitled to the head. Should both have found, 

 how is it to be determined then ? The huntf- 

 man who gets in firfl feems, in my opinion, to 

 have the bell right to it ; yet to prevent a difpute, 

 (which, of courfe, might be thought a wTong- 

 headed one) would he not do well to cut oiF 

 the head, and prefent it to the other huntfman ? 



The fame author, whom I quoted in my tenth 

 letter, and who tells us, how we fliould not eat a 

 hare, is alfo kind enough to tell us when we 

 Jliould eat a fox; I wifh he had cilfo ad' -'d tne 

 beft manner of dj-effing him: \vc are obliged to 

 him, however, for the following information : — 

 *' La chair du Renard efi moins mawvaife que celle 

 '' du hup ; les chiens et meme les Hommes enmangent 

 " en auto?nne, furtout Jorfqiiil s'eji nourri et en- 

 " S^^^Jj^ ^^ raifms."" — You would have been bet- 

 ter pleafed, I make no doubt, if the learned 

 gentleman had inflruc^ed you hozv to hunt himy 

 Tather'than vjheyi to eat him, 



I fhall end this letter with an anecdote of a late 

 huntfman of mine, who was a great flip-flop, 

 and always called fucceflively, fuccefsfulJy, One 



O 3 day. 



