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there are particularities not easy to be described. Should 

 you perceive the hares, toward the end of the season, to 

 become shy of the traps, from having been often caught, 

 it will be necessary to drive them in with spaniels. Should 

 this be the case, you will find them very thick round the 

 .warren ; for the warren-hares will be unwilling to leave it, 

 and, when disturbed by dogs, will immediately go in. 



If you turn them out before greyhounds, you cannot 

 give them too much law j if before hounds, you cannot 

 give them too little ; for reasons which I will presently 

 add. Though hares, as I told you before, never run so well 

 before hounds, as when they do not know where they 

 are ; yet, before greyhounds, it is the reverse : ^nd your 

 trap-hares, to run well, should always be turned .out 

 within their knowledge : they are naturally timid ; and are 

 easily disheartened, when they have no point to make to for 

 safety. 



If you turn out any before your hounds (whicli, if it 

 be not your v;ish, I shall by no means recomnr.end), give 

 them not much time, but lay on your hounds as soon as 

 they are out of view : if you do not, they will be likely 



