TrtOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. Jl 



nor had the)', I believe, a single skirter belonging to them. 

 There is a pack now in my neighbourhood, of all sorts 

 and sizes, which seldom miss a fox ; when they run, there 

 is a long string of them, and every fault is hit off by an 

 old southern hound. However, out of the last eighteen 

 foxes that they hunted, they killed seventeen , and I have 

 no doubt, that, as they become more complete, more foxes 

 will escape from them. Packs which are composed of 

 hounds of various kinds, seldom run well together j nor 

 do their tongues harmonize; yet they generally, I think, 

 kill most foxes : but unless I like their stile of killing 

 them, whatever may be their success, I cannot be com- 

 pletely satisfied. I once asked the famous Will Crane, 

 how his hounds behaved — " Fery well, Sir,'^ he replied : 

 *' tbey never come to a fault but they spread like a sky-rockets^* 

 Thus it should always be, 



A FAMOUS sportsman asked a gentleman what he 

 thought of his hounds. " Your pack is composed, Sir," 

 said he, " of dogs which any other man would hang: 

 " they are all sklrters." — This was taken as a compliment. 

 However, think not that I recommend it to you as such ; 



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