tHOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 12^ 



hearing of them, and can command them 3 and, on the con- 

 trary, when they are running down the wind, you cannot 

 keep too close to them. 



You complain that foxes are in too great plenty : be- 

 lieve me, it is a good fault. I should as soon have ex- 



pe6ted to have heard our old acquaintance. Jack R , 



complain of having too much money : however, it is not 

 without a remedy — hunt the same covers constantly, and 

 you will soon disperse them. If your pack be strong 

 enough, divide it ; hunt every day, and you will catch, 

 many tired foxes. I remember to have killed a brace in 

 one morning in the strongest season ; the first in ten 

 minutes, the second in half an hour. If your own pack 

 be not strong enough to hunt more than every other day, 

 get a pack of harriers to hunt hare in the cover the in- 

 termediate day. Foxes, thus disturbed, will shift their 

 quarters : they know their enemies, and smell in the 

 night where they have been in the day, and will not stay 

 where they are likely to be disturbed by them. Follow 

 them for one w^ek in this manner, and I do not think 

 you will have any reason, afterwards, to complain that 

 they are in too great plenty. 



