IQt THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



slower animal, he may easily be followed, and driven the 

 way you choose he should run. 



The day you intend to turn out a fox, or badger, you 

 will do well to send them amongst hares, or deer. A little 

 rateing and flogging, before they are encouraged to ver- 

 min, is of the greatest use ; as it teaches them as well what 

 they should not, as what they should, do. I have known 

 a badger run several miles, if judiciously managed ; for 

 which purpose, he should be turned out in a very open 

 country, and followed by a person who has more sense 

 than to ride on the line of him. Jf he do not meet with a 

 cover, or hedge, in his way, he will keep on for several miles; 

 if he do, you will not be able to get him any farther. You 

 should give him a great deal of law, and you will do well to 

 break his teeth*. 



If you run any cubs to ground in an indifferent coun- 



* The critic says, '* there is neither justice nor equity in breaking his 

 ^eeth." (Vide Monthly Review.) — I confess there is not ; and I never 

 know that it is done, but I feel all the force of the observation. — It is a 

 pjjstpni, as Shakespeare says on another occasion, 



ff More honour'd in the breach than the observance." 



