THOUGHTS UPON HUNTIN<?. iS^ 



seidom return : you tht^n cannot push on your hounds too 

 much. When the game is sinking, you will perceive your ■ 

 old hounds get forward : they then will run at head. 



** Happy the man who with unrivall'd speed 

 Can pass his fellows, and with pleasure view 

 The struggling pack ; how in the rapid course 

 Alternate they preside, and, jostling, push 

 To guide the dubious scent ; how giddy youth, 

 Oftbabblingj errs, by wiser age reprov'd; 

 How, niggard of his strength, the wise old hound 

 Hangs in the rear, till some important point 

 Rouse all his diligence, or till the Chase 

 Sinking he finds ; then to the head he springs, 

 With thirst of glory fir'd, and wins the prize." 



SOMERVILLE. 



Keep no babblers j for though the pack soon find them outj 

 and mind them not, yet it is unpleasant to hear their noise j 

 nor are such fit companions for the rest. 



Though the Spedator may make us laugh at the oddity 

 of his friend Sir Roger, for returning a hound which he 

 said was an excellent l>ass, because he wanted a counter^ 

 tenor ; yet I am of opinion, that if we attended more to the 

 variety of notes frequently to be met with in the tongues 

 of hounds, it might greatly add to, the harmony of the 



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