THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 263 



ter ; he may by this means make the very lofs of 

 a fox of ufe to him. 



Old tyeing hounds, and a hare-hunter turned 

 fox-hunter, are both as oontrary to the true fpirit 

 of fox-hunting, as any thing can poffibly be. — 

 One is continually bringing the pack back again ; 

 the other as conflantly does his befl to prevent 

 tiiem from getting forward. The natural preju- 

 dices of malikind are ilich, that a man feldora 

 alters his Ityle of hunting, let him purfue what 

 game he may ; betides, it may be conilitutional, 

 as he is himfelf flow or a6tive, dull or lively, pa^ 

 tient or impatient ; it is for that reafon I objedt 

 to a hare-hunter for a pack of fox-hounds ; for 

 the lame ideas of hunting will moil probably flick 

 by him as long as he lives. 



Your huntfman is an old man ; fhould he 

 have been working hard all his life on wrong 

 principles, he may be now incorrigible. 



Sometimes you will meet with a good kennel 

 huntfman, fometiraes an a6live and judicious one 

 in the field ; Ibme are clever at finding a fox, 

 others are better after he is found; whilft per- 

 fedlion in a huntfman, like perfection in anything 

 elfe, is fcarccly ever to be met with : there are 

 not only good, bad, and indifferent huntfmen, 

 but there are perhaps a few others, who being as 



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