i,o6 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTtNG* 



the wind, vou cannot in rcafon be loo far behind 

 ihem^ as long as you have a perfedV hearing of 

 them, and can comniand them ; and on the con- 

 trary, when they are running down the windj, 

 you cannot keep too clofe to them. 



You complain that foxes are in too great 

 plenty ; beheve me, it is a good fault. I fliould 

 as foon have expelled to have heard your old ac- 

 quaintance, Jack R , complain of having too 

 much money ; however, it is not without a re- 

 medy ; hunt the fame covers conflantly, and you 

 will foon difperfe them. If your pack be Itrong 

 enough, divide it ; hunt every day, and you will 

 catch many tired foxes. I remember to have 

 killed a brace in one morning, in the ftrongcft 

 leafon ; the tirlT. in ten minutes, the fccond in 

 half aa hour. — If your own pack be not flrong 

 enough to hunt more than every other day, get a, 

 pack of harriers to hunt hare in the cover the 

 intermediate day. Foxes thus diflurbed, wall 

 faift their quarters ; they know their enemies, and 

 fmell in the night, wdiere they have been in the 

 day, and v.ill not ftay where they are likely to 

 be diflurbed by them. Follow them for one 

 week in this manner, and I do not tiiink you will 

 have any reafon, afterwards, to complain that 

 they are in too great plenty.. 



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