THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



LETTER IL 



SINCE you intend to make hunting your chief amuse- 

 ment in the country, you are certainly in the right to 

 give it some consideration before you begin ; and not, hke 

 Master Stephen in the play, first buy a hawk, and then hunt 

 after a book to keep, it by. I am glad to find that you in- 

 tend to build a new kennel 3 and, 1 flatter myself, the expe- 

 dience that I have had may be of some use to you in build- 

 ing it : it is not only the first thing that you should do, 

 but it is also the most important. As often as your mind 

 may alter, so often may you easily change from one kind 

 of hound to another ; but your kennel will still remain 

 the same 3 will still keep its original imperfeulions, uuless 

 altered at a great expence j and be less perfect at last thap. 

 jt might have been made at first, had you pursued a proper 

 plan. It is true, hounds may be kept in barns and 

 stables j but those who keep them in such places can best 

 inform you, whether their hounds are capable of answering 



