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are going to heat ; and about the whelping 

 time. It is a mistaken idea to suppose any 

 hard working man will do for a feeder — it 

 requires a diligent person, with some head. 

 In reply to your enquiry regarding 

 scent. It is so speculative a subject, and 

 governed by such an apparent contrariety 

 of circumstances, that I am more at a loss 

 w r hat to say upon it than upon any thing I 

 have written on the score of fox-hunting. 

 We all know Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, 

 Rutlandshire, and Northamptonshire, to be 

 the best scenting counties in England, and 

 where hounds have a greater advantage 

 over a fox than in any other ; for in almost 

 all kinds of weather (I mean of course frost 

 excepted,) there is a sufficient scent for 

 hounds to hunt, and you are sure of some 

 sort of sport if you will but have patience. 

 In what are called the rural-countries, un- 

 less you have favourable weather, it often 

 happens you cannot run a yard ; therefore 



