5© THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING* 



your hounds should run well together ; nor can this end be 

 better attained, than b)^ confining yourself, as near as you 

 can, to those of the same sort, size, and shape. 



A GREAT excellence in a pack of hounds, is the head 

 they carry -, and that pack may be said to go the fastest, 

 that can run ten miles the soonest ; notwithstanding the 

 hounds, separately, may not run so fast as many others, 

 A pack of hounds, considered in a coUedive body, go 

 fast, in proportion to the excellence of their noses, and 

 the head they carry; as that traveller generally gets, 

 soonest to his journey's end who stops least upon the 

 road. — Some hounds that I have hunted with, would creep 

 all through the same hole, though they might have leapt 

 the hedge, and would follow one another in a string, as true 

 as a team of cart-horses. I had rather see them, like the 

 horses of the sun, cill a-breast, 



A FRIEND of mine killed thirty-seven brace of foxes in 

 one season : twenty-nine of the foxes were killed without 

 any intermission. 1 must tell you, at the same time, tl/at 

 they were killed with hounds bred from a pack of harriers , 



