Thoughts Upon Hunting: in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend
Thoughts Upon Hunting: in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend
Peter Beckford
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When two packs of fox- hounds run together, and tlicy kill the fox, the pack that found him is entitled to the head. Should both have found, how is it to be deter- mined then ? — 1 he huntsman who gets in first, seems, in * The intention of it is, to make the hounds more eager, and to let in the tail hounds. The fox is thrown across the branch of a tree, and the hounds are suffered to bay at him for some minutes before he is thrown amongst them. THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. £15 my opinion, to have th...e best right to it ; j'ct, to prevent a dispute (which, of course, might be thought a wrong- headed one), would he not do well to cut off the head, and present it to the other huntsman ? The same author, whom 1 quoted in my tenth Letter, and who tells us how we should not e. It a harc^ is also kind enough to tell us when we should ^at a fox : I wish he had also added the best manner of dressing him. We are obliged to him, however, for the following infor- mation : — " La chair dii renard €st moins vmuvaise que " c'eile du hup ; les chiens ct meme les Honimcs rn mange nt " en aulomne^ surtoiit hrsqiCil s'est nourri et engraisse de " raisins^ — You would have been better pleased, 1 make no doubt, if the learned gentleman had instrudled you hozv to hunt him^ rather than zvhen to eat him.
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