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92 this is too much, too ſhort, and violent, nor is ſuch ſucceſs often to be expected. For though this kind of Dogs are much in requeſt among our younger Gentry, who take out, running and out-riding their neighbours to be the beſt part of the ſport; yet it would make one ſick to be out with them in a croſs morning, when the walk lies backward, or the ſcent low or falling. The Huntſman rates, the Groom rides, the Squire ſwears, the whips crack; war-wing, war-counter, war-ſheep, p— take ye, the d— l had ye, is the burden of their muſick. Their high mettle makes them impatient to drive the nail as it will go, rather than ſtay to creep or ſtoop, they puſh forward, at every fume they catch, they croſs it, overrun it, hunt backward, or hunt any thing to force a trade: in ſhort, in my opinion, it is impoſſible to make a good pack of theſe, without the conſtant diſcipline of the whip, without perpetually hunting them, and hunting them down to tame their fury, and quench their fire.

There is yet another ſort in great favour with ſmall Gentry, becauſe they eat but