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mentations. Well-known tongues ! and such as I had 

 never before heard without pleasure. It was painful to 

 see their distress, and not know how to relieve it. A 

 number of people, by this time, w-ere assembled near the 

 river-side ; but there was not one amongst them that would 

 venture in. However, a guinea, at last, tempted one 

 man to fetch out a hound that was entangled in a bush, 

 and would otherwise have perished. Two hounds re- 

 mained upon a hedge all night; and, though at a consider- 

 able distance from each other when we left them, yet they 

 got together afterwards ; and the next morning, when the 

 flood abated, they Vv^ere found closely clasping each other : 

 without doubt, it was the friendly warmth which they afford- 

 ed each other that kept both alive. We lost but one hound 

 by this unlucky expedition, but could not save any of 

 our terriers. They were seen to sink, their strength not 

 being sufficient to resist the two enemies they had to en- 

 counter (powerful, when combined) — -the severity of the 

 cold, and the rapidity of the stream. 



You ask. At what time you should leave off hunting? 

 It is a question which I know not how to answer ; as it 

 depends as much on the quantity of game that you have, 



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