^32; THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



wind till you find^ let him do it : it will have 

 many advantages attending it : he will draw the 

 fame covers in half the time ; your people can- 

 not fail of being in their proper places ; you will 

 have lefs difticulty in getting your hounds off; 

 and as the fox will moft probably run the covers, 

 that liave been already drawn, you are leafl likely 

 to change. 



If you have a firing of fmall covers, and plenty 

 of foxes in them, fome caution may be neceflary 

 to prevent your hounds from difturbing them all 

 in one day. Never hunt your fmall covers till 

 you have well rattled the large ones firft ; for 

 until the foxes be thinned and difperfed, where 

 they were in plenty, it muft be bad policy to 

 drive others there to incrcafe the number. — If 

 you would thin your foxes, you muft throw off 

 at the fame cover as long as you can find a fox. 

 If you come off with the fox that breaks, you do 

 not difturb the cover, and may expc61 to find 

 there again the next day; but where they are 

 fcarce, you fliould never draw the fame cover 

 two days following. 



Judicious huntfmen will obferve where foxes like 

 befl to lie. In chaces and forefls, where you have 

 a great tradl of cover to draw, fuch obfervation 

 is neceflary, or you will lofe much time in finding*. 

 Generally ipeaking, I think they are fondefl 



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