Thoughts upon HUNTiNdi z^) 



ho opinion of. They fuppofed the fox was gone 

 another way ; in which cafe Mr. Bayes's remark 

 in the Rehearfal always occurs to me, " that, if 

 ^^ he Jhouldnot, what then becomes of their fuppofef* 

 Better, furely, would it be, to make a fhort caft 

 forward iirft; they then might be certain the hounds 

 were wrong, and of courfe could make their own 

 caft with greater confidence: — the advantage, 

 next to that of knowing whither the fox is gone, 

 is that of knowing, with certainty, whither he is 

 not, 



Mofl huntfraen like to have all their hounds 

 turned after them, when they make a cafl: : I 

 wonder not at them for it, but I am always forry 

 when I fee it done ; for, till I find a huntfman 

 that is infallible, I Ihall continue to thiak the 

 more my hounds fpread, the better; as long as 

 they are within fight or hcu ving. it is fufficient. — 

 Many a time have I feen an obftinate hound hit 

 off the fcent, when an oblHnate huntiinan, by 

 calling the wrong way, has done all in his power 

 to prevent it. Two foxes I remember to have 

 feen killed, in one day, by fkirting hounds, whiiil 

 the huntfman was making his caft the contrary 

 way. 



When hounds, running In cover, come into a 

 road, and horfes are on before, let the huntfman 

 hold them quickly on beyond where the horfes 



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