68 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



As you desire a list of names, I will send you one. 1 have 

 endeavoured to class them according to their difPeient gen- 

 ders ; but you will perceive that some names may be used in- 

 discriminately for either. It is not usual, I believe, to call a 

 pointer Ringwood, or a greyhound Harmony ; and such 

 names as are expressive of speed, strength, courage, or other 

 natural qualities in a hound, 1 think most applicable to 

 them. Damons and Delias 1 have left out j the bold Thun- 

 der, and the brisk Lightning, if you please, may supply 

 their places j unless you prefer the method of the gentleman 

 I told you of, who intends naming his hounds from the 

 p — ge ; and, I suppose, he at the same time v.'ill not be un- 

 niindful of the p — y c — rs. 



If you mark the whelps in the side (which is called 

 branding them) when they are first put out (or perhaps it 

 may be better done after they have been out some time), 

 jt may prevent their being stolen. 



When young hounds are first taken in, they should be 

 Jvept separate from the pack ; and, as it will happen at a 

 time of the year when there is little or no hunting, you may 



