THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. S.^1 



unacquainted with your people^ will not readily hunt for 

 them as they ought j and such as were steady in their 

 own pack may become unsteady in yours. I once saw an 

 extraordinary instance of this, when I kept harriers : — ^Huntr 

 ing one day on the downs, a well-known fox-hound of a 

 neighbouring gentleman came arid joined us; and as he both 

 ran faster than we did, and skirted more, he broke every 

 fault, and killed many hares. I saw this hound often in his 

 own pack afterwards, where he was perfedlly steady 5 and 

 though he constantly hunted in covers where hares were in 

 great plenty, I never remember to have seen him run one 

 step after them. ' 



A CHANGE of country, also, will sometimes occasion a 

 difference in the 'steadiness of hounds. My hounds hunt 

 frequently in Cranborn Chase, and are steady from deer^ 

 yet I once knew them run an outlying deer, which they 

 unexpectedly found in a distant country. 



I AM sorry to hear that so bad an accident has happened 

 to your pack, as that of killing sheep j but I apprehend, 

 from your account of it, that it proceeded from idleness, 

 rather than vice. The manner in which the sheep were 



