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market. Wind is strength, and strengtK is 

 wind ; without it, no exercise can be well 

 performed. It is the same in a man, in a 

 horse, and in a dog ; therefore, look to this - *• 

 particularly ; for, provided your dog be not 

 in good wind, he cannot hunt. Delicate 

 small-boned dogs cannot be fed too much ; 

 but the best method is not to have any 

 thing to do with them ; for I never saw one 

 in my life, which would hunt three days 

 without tiring, and I would not give one 

 tarthing for a dog, which will not hunt 

 every daj^ throughout the season. I cannot 

 afford to keep many dogs ; therefore, the 

 few I have, must work well. 



You shall now know my reason why I ofshooting 



^ -^ . haves. 



teach all my dogs to run hares. I will not 

 defend the practice, for I well know it is 

 very unsportsman-like, and contrary to all 

 rule and order. I scarcely know the time 

 when I have missed a hare, I mean when 

 she gets up before me in a field, or out of 

 a hedge ; not when they are bobbing about 

 in a cover ; then it is very difficult to shoot 

 them, and a man must shoot very quick 

 indeed, a perfection which I never attained, 



