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my opinion, to have the best right to it ; j'ct, to prevent 

 a dispute (which, of course, might be thought a wrong- 

 headed one), would he not do well to cut off the head, and 

 present it to the other huntsman ? 



The same author, whom 1 quoted in my tenth Letter, 

 and who tells us how we should not e.it a harc^ is also 

 kind enough to tell us when we should ^at a fox : I wish 

 he had also added the best manner of dressing him. We 

 are obliged to him, however, for the following infor- 

 mation : — " La chair dii renard €st moins vmuvaise que 

 " c'eile du hup ; les chiens ct meme les Honimcs rn mange nt 

 " en aulomne^ surtoiit hrsqiCil s'est nourri et engraisse de 

 " raisins^ — You would have been better pleased, 1 make 

 no doubt, if the learned gentleman had instrudled you hozv 

 to hunt him^ rather than zvhen to eat him. 



I SHALL end this Letter with an anecdote of a late 

 huntsman of mine, who was a great slip-slop, and always 

 called successively successfully : — One day, when he had 

 been out with the young hounds, I sent for him in, and 

 asked him What sport he had had ? and. How the hounds 

 behaved ? — *' Very great sport, Sir, and no hounds could 



