2,44 THOUGHTS UI'ON HUNTINO, 



ion ; they fliould not be mucli difturbed aftef 

 Chrlllmas : foxes will then refort to them, will 

 breed there, and you can preierve them with little 

 trouble. This relates to the good management 

 of a pack of hounds, which is a bulinefs dillin6t 

 from hunting them. 



Thou2:h a huntfman cudit to be as filent as 

 poffiblc at going into a cover, he cannot be too 

 noify at coming out of it again ; and if at any 

 time he Ihould turn back fuddenly, let him give 

 as much notice of it as he can to his hounds, or 

 he will leave many beliind him ; and ihould he 

 turn down the wind, he may ice no more of 

 ihem. 



I fhotild be forry that the filence of my huntf- 

 man fliould proceed from either of the following 

 caufes. — A huntfman that I once knew, (who, by 

 the bye, I believe, is at this time a drummer in a 

 marching regiment) went out one morning lb very 

 drunk, that he got off his horfc in the midii of a 

 thick cover, laid himfelf down, and went to fleep: 

 — he was loft, nobody knew what was l)ecome of 

 ]iim, and he was at laft found in the iitnation I 

 have juft defcribed. He had, however, great good 

 lutk on his lide, for at the very inftant he was 

 found a fox v,as hallooed; upon which he mounted 

 Iiis horfc, rode defpcrately, killed his fox hand- 

 fomely^ and was forgiven, 



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