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often as they approach her : they will then have some notion, 

 at least, for what they are beaten ; but let me entreat you, 

 before this charivari*' begins, to draft off your steady 

 hounds : an animal to whom we ow^e so much orood di^ 

 version, should not be ill used unnecessarily. — When a 

 hare is put into the kennel, the huntsman and both the 

 whippers-in should be present ; and the whippers-in 

 should flog every hound, calling him by his name, and 

 rateing him as often as he is near the hare j and upon this 

 occasion they cannot cut them too hard, or rate them too 

 much. When they think they have chastised them enough, 

 the hare should then be taken away, the huntsman should 

 halloo off his hounds, and the whippers-in should rate them 

 to him. If any one love hare more than the rest, you 

 may tie a dead one round his neck, flogging him and 

 rateing him at the same time. This possibly may make 

 him ashamed of it. 1 never bought a lot of hounds, 

 some of which were not obliged to undergo this disci- 



■■*^ A confusion arising from a variety of noises. It is a custom in 

 France and In Switzerland, if a woman marry sooner than is usual after 

 tjie death of her husband, or a woman get the better of her husband when 

 attempting to chastise her, and return the beating with interest- — the neigh- 

 bours give them a charivari ; a kind of concert, composed of tongs, lire* 

 shovels, kettles, brass pans, &c. &c. 



