THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING, ^A-"] 



as he is to be quiet and patient ; for patience, be siiouM 

 be a very Grizzle ; and the more quiet he is, the better. 

 He should have infinite perseverance ; for a hare should 

 never be given up while it is possible to hunt her : she 

 is sure to stop, and therefore may always be recovered^ 

 Were it usual to attend to the breed of our huntsmer^ 

 a? well as to that of our hounds, J knov/ no family that 

 would furnish a better cross than that of the si/eni gentleman 

 mentioned by the Spedator : a female of his line, crossed 

 with a knowing huntsman, would probably produce a 

 perfed hare-hunter. 



The whipper-in also has little to do with him whom I 

 before described : yet he may be like the second whipper- 

 in to a pack of fox-hounds; the stable-boy who is to 

 follow the huntsman : but 1 w^ould have him still more 

 confined, for he should not dare even to stop a hound, or 

 smack a whip, without the huntsman's order. Much 

 noise and rattle is diredly contrary to the first principles 

 of hare-hunting, which is, to be perfedly quiet, and to 

 let your hounds alone. I have seen few hounds so good as 

 town packs, that have no professed huntsman to follow 

 them. If they have no one to assist them, they have at 



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