Il6 THOUGRrS UPON HUNTING. 



of benevolence, which the Italian author of tlie most hu- 

 jpane book* could not fail to commen.'l you for. llunts- 

 men and whippcvs-in are seldom so unlucky as to have your 

 feelings ^ yet custom, which authorises them to fiog hounds 

 unmercifully, dees not do away the barbarity of it. — A gen- 

 tleman seeing a girl skinning eels alive, asked her, " if it 

 *' was not very cruel ?" — ' O, not at all, Sir,' replied the 

 girl i ' tbn' he used to it' 



* Dei delitti eddlepcnc. 



