i6 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTIKG. 



think, it a trifling subjed, if you think it a necessary one i 

 and 1 wish that my own experience of the diversion may 

 enable me to answer the many questions which you arc 

 pleased to propose concerning il. 



Knowing your partiality to rhyme, I could wish to 

 send you my tiioughts in verse ; but as this would take 

 up more time, without answering your purpose better, 

 I must beg you to accept them in humble prose, which, in 

 my opinion, is better suited to the subjeA. Didadic 

 essays should be as little clogged as possible : they should 

 proceed regularly and clearly : should be easily written, 

 and as easily understood ; having less to do with words 

 than things. The game of crambo is out of fashion, to 

 the no small prejudice of the rhyming tribe ; and before 

 1 could find a rhyme to porringer^ I should hope to finish 

 a great part of these Letters. I shall, therefore, without 

 further delay, proceed upon them : — this, however, I must 

 desire to be first understood between us — that when, to 

 save trouble to us both, I say a thing />, without tacking 

 a salvo to the tail of it, such as, /;/ my opinion — to the best 

 ef my judgment, &c. &c. — you shall not call my humility 

 in question, as the assertion is not meant to be xnathema- 



