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li' you have any hounds more vicious than the 

 refl, they fliould be left at home a day or two, 

 till the others arc well in blood : your people, 

 without doubt, will be particularly cautious at 

 the beginning of the feaibn what hounds they 

 halloo to : fhould they be encouraged on a wrong 

 Icent it will be a great hurt to thera. 



The firft day that you hunt in the forell; be 

 equally cautious what hounds you take out. All 

 Ihould be fteady from deer ; you afterwards may 

 put others to them, a few at a time. I have feeri 

 a pack draw fteadily enough ; and yet, when 

 running hard, fall on a weak deer, and reil as 

 contented as if they had killed their fox. Thefe 

 hounds were not chaftifed, though caught in the 

 fadl, but were fuffered to draw on for a freHi 

 fox ; I had rather they had undergone feverc dif- 

 cipline. The finding of another fox with them, 

 afterwards might then have been of fervice; 

 otherwife, in my opinion, it could only ferve tc^ 

 encourage them in the vice, and make them worfc 

 and worfe. 



I muH: mention an initance of extraordinary 

 iagacity in a fox-beagle, which once belonged to 

 the Duke of Cumberland. I entered him at hare, 

 to which he was immediately fo fleady, that he 

 would run nothing elfe. When a fox was found 

 by the beagles, which fometimes happened, he 



would 



