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Harriets sliould lie kept to their own Game. 



noses, or without the least prejudice to their hunting. 

 If trying forward should not succeed, they may then be 

 suffered to try back again, which you will find them all 

 ready enough to do ; for they are sensible how far they 

 brought the scent, and where they left it. 



" Harriers, to be good, like all other hounds, must be 

 kept to their own game. If you run fox with them, you 

 spoil them. Hounds cannot be perfect unless used to 

 one scent, and one style of hunting. Harriers run fox 

 in so different a style from hare, that it is of great dis- 

 service to them when they return to hare again. It 

 makes them wild, and teaches them to skirt. The high 

 scent Vv^hich a fox leaves, the straightness of his running, 

 the eagerness of the pursuit, and the noise that generally 

 accompanies it, all contribute to spoil a harrier. 



" I hope you agree with me, that it is a favdt in a pack 

 of harriers to go too fast ; for a hare is a little timorous 

 animal, that we cannot help feeling some compassion for, 

 at the very time when we are pursuing her destruction : 

 we sliould give scope to all her little tricks, nor kill her 

 foully and overmatched. Instinct instructs her to make 

 a good defence, when not unfairly treated ; and I will 

 venture to say, that, as far as her own safety is concerned, 

 she has more cunning than the fox, and makes many 

 shifts to save her life, far beyond all his r.rlifice. Without 

 doubt, you have often heard of hares, who, from the 

 miraculous escapes they have made, have been thought 

 ivitches ; but, I believe, you never heard of a fox that 

 had cunning enough to be thought a wizard. 



" They who like to rise early have amusement in seeing 

 the hare trailed to her form ; it is of areat service to 



