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glad that the country in which I hunt does not 

 require them. In the book. I have jull quoted, 

 you will find the ihoeing of horfes treated of very 

 much at large. I beg leave, therefore, if you 

 want further information on that head, to refer 

 you to it. 



Having declared my difapprobation of fum- 

 mer hunting, on account of the horfes, I mull 

 add, that I am not lefs an enemy to it on account 

 of the hounds alio ; they, I think, fliould have 

 Ibme time allowed them to recover the ftrains and 

 bruifes of many a painful chace ; and their diet, 

 in which the adding: to their flren'Z'th has been, 

 perhaps, too much conlidcred, fhould now be al- 

 tered. No more flefh. fhould they now eat ; but 

 in its flead, lliould have their bodies cooled, with 

 whey, greens, and thin meat : without this pre- 

 caution, the mange, moft probably, would be the 

 immediate confequence of hot weather, perhaps 

 madnefs : — direful malady ! 



As a country life has been recommended in all 

 ages, not lefs for the contentment of the mind, 

 than the health of the body, it is no wonder that 

 hunting fhould be conlidered by fo many as a 

 necelTary part of it, fince nothing conduces more 

 to both : a great genius has told us, that it is 



Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, 

 Than fee tlie dodlor for a naufeous draught. 



With 



