THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. iBy 



nitlon of one might now be made than that which he has 

 left. Fox hunting is now become the amusement oi geti' 

 tlemen ; nor need any gentleman be ashamed of it. 



I SHALL now begin to answer your various questions 

 as they present themselves. Though I was glad of this 

 expedient to'methodize, in some degree, the variety that we 

 have to treat of, yet I was well aware of the irripossibihty 

 of sufficiently explaining myself in the midst of a fox- 

 chase, whose rapidity, you know very well, brooks no 

 delay. Now is the time, therefore, to make good that 

 deficiency ; what afterwards remains on the subje6t of 

 hunting, will serve as a supplement to the rest ; in which 

 I shall still have it in my power to introduce whatever 

 may be now forgotten, or give a further explanation of 

 such parts as may seem to you to require it ; for, since 

 my principal view in writing these Letters is, to make the 

 instrudion that they contain of som.e use to you, if you 

 should want it ; if not, to others — the being as clear and 

 as explicit as I can, will be far beyond all other considera- 

 tions. Repetitions, we know, are shocking things ; yet, 

 in writing so many Letters on the same subjed, 1 fear it 

 will be difficult to avoid them, 



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