THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING, 



LETTER XIV. 



FOX-HUNTING, however lively and animating it 

 may be in the field, is but a dull, dry subjedl to write upon j 

 and 1 can now assure you from experience, that it is much 

 less difficult to follow a fox-chase than to describe one. You 

 will easily imagine, that to give enough of variety to a sin- 

 gle adlion, to make it interesting, and to describe in a few 

 minutes the events of, perhaps, as many hours j though it 

 pretend to no merit, has at least some difficulty and trouble: 

 and you will as easily conclude that I am glad they are over. 



You desire me to explain that part of my last Letter, 

 which says, if ive can hold him on^ we may now recover him. 

 It means, if we have scent to follow on the line of him, it 

 is probable that he will stop, and we may hunt up to him 

 again. You also obje<5l to my saying, catch a fox : you call 

 it a bad expression, and say that it is not sportly, 1 believe 



