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Rules in playing the Game of Chefs.

game, by the fame celebrated author, the infertion will oblige,

Gentlemen,

Your conftant reader and correfpondent,

J. J. B.

"THAT we may be induced more frequently to chufe this beneficial amusement in preference to others, which are not attended with the fame advantages, every circumftance that may increafe the pleasure of it should be regarded; and every word or action that is unfair, difrespectful, or that in any way may give uneafinefs, fhould be avoided, as contrary to the immediate intention of both parties, which is to pass the time agreeably.

ift. Therefore, if it is agreed to play according to the ftrict rules, then thofe rules are to be ftrictly observed by both parties; and fhould not be infifted upon for one fide, while deviated from by the other, for this is not equi

table.

2d. If it is agreed not to obferve the rules exactly, but one party demands indulgences, he fhould then be as willing to allow them to the other.

3d. No falfe move should even be made to extricate yourself out of a difficulty, or to gain an advantage for there can be no pleasure in playing with a man once detected in fuch unfair prac.. tice.

4th. If your adverfary is long in playing, you ought not to hurry him, or exprefs any uneafinefs at his delay; not even by looking at your watch, or taking up a book to read: you should not fing nor whistle, nor make a tap. ping with your feet on the floor, or with your fingers on the table, VOL. VII. No. XLI.

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nor do any thing that may diftract his attention; for all these things displease, and they do not prove your skill in playing, but your craftinefs, and your rudenefs.

5th. You ought not to endea vour to amuse and deceive your adverfary, by pretending to have made bad moves; and faying you have now loft the game, in order to make him fecure and carelefs, and inattentive to your schemes; for this is fraud and deceit, not fkill in the game of chefs.

6th. You, muft not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or infulting expreffions, nor fhew too much of the pleasure you feel, but endeavour to confole your adversary, and make him less diffatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expreffion that may be used with truth; fuch as, "you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive; or you play the game too faft; or you had the best of the game, but fomething happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour."

7th. When a vanquished player is guilty of an untruth to cover his disgrace, as "I have not played fo long, his method of opening the game confused me; the men were of an unusual size,' &c." All fuch apologies (to call them no worse) muft lower him in a wife person's eyes, both as a man and as a chefs-player; and who will not fufpect, that he who fhelters himself under fuch untruths in trifling matters, is no very sturdy moralift in things of greater confequences, where his fame or honour are at ftake? A man of proper pride would fcorn to account for his being beaten by one of these excuses, even if it were true, because they all have fo

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242 Remarkable Inftance of Fidelity, &c. in a Terrier.

fo much the appearance, at the moment, of being untrue.

8th. If you are a spectator, while others play, observe the most perfect filence; for if you give advice, you offend both the parties; him against whom you give it, becaufe it may caufe him to lose the game; him in whofe favour you give it, because, though it be good, and he follows it, he lofes the pleasure he might have had, if you had permitted him to think till it had occurred to himself. Even after a move, or moves, you must

not, by replacing the pieces,

fhow how they might have been placed better; for that difpleafes, and might occafion difputes or doubts about their true fituation.

All talking to the players, leffens or diverts their attention, and is therefore unpleafing: nor fhould you give the leaft hint to either party by any kind of noise or motion; if you do, you are unworthy to be a spectator.

If you defire to exercise or show your judgment, do it in playing your own game, when you have an opportunity, not in criticising or meddling, or counselling the play of others.

Lafly, If the game is not to be played rigorously, according to the rules above mentioned, then moderate your defire of victory over your adversary, and be pleased with one over yourself.

Snatch not eagerly at every advantage offered by his unskilfulness or inattention; but point out to him kindly, that, by fuch a move, he places or leaves a piece en prife unfupported; that, by another, he will put his king into a dangerous fituation, &c.

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By this generous civility (fo oppofite to the unfairnefs above forbidden) you may happen in

deed to lose the game, but you will win what is better, his esteem, his refpect, and his affection, together with the filent approbation and the good-will of the fpecta

tors.

Remarkable Inftance of FIDELITY and COURAGE fhewn in the conduct of a TERRIER.

ONE evening laft month, as a young gentleman, of the name of Hardie, was paffing through St. Andrew's Square, Glafgow, on his way home to his father's houfe in Charlotte-street, he was stopped oppofite to the north-weft corner of St. Andrew's Church, by a man armed with a large oak flick, who feized Mr. Hardie by the breast, and, ftriking him a violent blow on the head, defired him inftantly to deliver his watch;-as he was preparing to repeat the blow, a terrier belonging to Mr. Hardie, fprung at him and feized him by the throat, and Mr. Hardie, at the fame moment, giving him a violent pufh, the fellow fell backwards, and dropped his ftick, which Mr. Hardie immediately feized, and ran off the terrier foon afterwards followed him home, bearing in his teeth, as a trophy of his courage, nearly half the man's waistcoat, in the lining of which a half-guinea was found carefully fewed up. The waistcoat is of coarse woollen ftuff, with a black ftripe, much worn and tattered, and does not appear to have ever correfponded to the elegance of the walking-ftick, which has a gilt head and eyes, and contains a very handsome small fword.

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I AM not infenfible to the polite they were bred, when hunted,

attention you have at all times paid to my communications; and can affure you, that, although I have nearly come to a close with my favorite fubject, I fhall take every opportunity of tranfmitting whatever may fall under my obfervation relative to the plan of your work. In my laft, having recommended the utility of a foxcourt, I fhall, with your leave, proceed with proper directions for the treatment of young cubs.

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Where rabbits are plentiful, nature will foon teach the cubs how to catch the young ones; and till that period of abundance arrives, it may be neceffary to provide food for them. A dead sheep carried to the earth, will afford fubfiftence for the cubs for fome time. Where game is fcarce, wet weather will be most favourable to them; they can then live on beetles, chaffers, worms, &c. which they will find in great plenty. "The morning," fays Mr. Beckford," is the best time to turn them out: if turned out in the evening, they are likely to ramble; but if turned out early, and fed on the earth, there is little doubt of their re

maining there." It is moft proper to turn them into large covers, and ftrong earths; they are more liable to be ftolen out of fmall earths, and are more likely to ftray from fmall covers. Game-keepers, who have little to do at this feafon of the year, should feed and take care of them. When any of thefe earths are ftopped, it is necessary they should be opened |

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Gentlemen who buy foxes, do great injury to fox-hunting: they encourage the robbing of neighbouring hunts; in which cafe, without doubt, the receiver is as bad as the thief. It is the interest of every fox-hunter to be cautious how he behaves in this par ticular indeed, I believe most gentlemen are; and it may be easy to retaliate on fuch as are not. I have been told, that in fome hunts it is the conftant employment of one perfon to watch the earths at the breeding time, to prevent the cubs from being ftoFurze-covers cannot be too much encouraged for that reafon, for there they are fafe. They have alfo other advantages attending them; they are certain places to find in;-foxes cannot break from them unfeen;-nor are you fo liable to change as in other covers. A fox, when preffed by hounds, will feldom go into a furze brake. Rabbits, which are the fox's favourite food, fhould alfo be encouraged there, and yet do little damage. Were they fuffered to eftablish themselves in the woods, it would be difficult to destroy them afterwards. Thus far I object to them as a foxhunter: fince nothing is more prejudicial to the breeding of foxes, than difturbing the woods, late in the season, to deftroy the rabbits.

The price fome men pay for foxes might well encourage the robbing of every hunt in the kingG g 2

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On Hunting,

dom, their own not excepted. But the foi-difant gentleman who receives them, fhould be defpifed more than the poor thief who takes them. Some gentlemen afk no questions, and flatter themfelves they have found out that convenient mezzo termino for the eafy accommodation of their confciences.

With respect to the digging of foxes, it is customary with fome to run to ground; what I myself have obferved in that business, I will endeavour to recollect. My people, ufually, I think, follow the hole, except when the earth is large, and the terriers have fixed the fox in an angle of it; for they then find it a more expeditious method to fink a pit as near to him as they can.

A ter

rier fhould always be kept in at the fox; if this is not observed, he may not only move, but also, in lcofe ground, dig himself further in. In digging, fufficient room should be kept, and care fhould be taken not to throw the earth upon any place from whence it may be neceffary to move it again.In following the hole, the fureft way not to lofe it, is to keep below it. When hounds are in want of blood, all the holes fhould be ftopped, left the fox bolts out unfeen. It caufes no fmall confufion, when this happens. The hounds are difperfed about, and afleep in different places; the horses are often at a confiderable distance; and many a fox, by taking advantage of the moment, has faved his life.

If hounds want blood, and have had a long run, it is the beft way, without doubt, to kill the fox upon the earth; but if they have not run long; if it be eafy to dig out the fox; and the cover be fuch a one as they are not likely to change in; it is better for the hounds, to

turn him out upon the earth, and let them work for him. It is the blood that will do them moft good, and may be ferviceable to the hounds, and alfo to the horfes. Digging a fox is cold work, and may require a gallop afterwards, to recover from the cold. Before this is done, if there be any other earths in the cover, they fhould be stopped, left the fox fhould go to ground again.

The huntfman fhould try all around, and be perfectly satisfied that the fox is not gone on, before an earth is tried; " for want of this precaution," fays Mr. Beckford, I once dug three hours to a terrier that lay all the time at a rabbit and there was another circumftance which I am not likely to forget, that I had twenty miles to ride home afterwards." A fox fometimes runs over an earth, and does not go into it; he fometimes goes in and does not ftay; he may find it too hot, or may not like the company that he meets with there: I have no doubt but that he has good reasons for every thing he does, though we are not always acquainted with

them.

Huntsmen, when they get near the fox, will fometimes put a hound in to draw him. This is however a cruel operation, and feldom answers any other purpose than to occafion the dog a bad bite, the fox's head generally being towards him; befides, a few minutes digging will render it unnecessary. If you let the fox firft feize your whip, the hound will draw him more readily. You may draw a fox by fixing a piece of whipcord made into a noose to the end of a ftick; which, when the fox feizes, you may draw him out by.

Badgers fhould not be encouraged in woods; they make ftrong earths,

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Experiments on Glandered Horfes.

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earths, which will be expenfive adminiftered with the greatest and troublesome whenever there may be occafion to ftop them ; and likewife fatal to fport, if they are not stopped.

I now take my leave, Gentlemen, for the present, and remain, With the greatest respect, Your's, &c. ACASTUS.

EXPERIMENTS on GLANDERED HORSES, made by the late M. SAINBEL, at the Veterniary School at Lyons; extracted from the work of that ingenious Profeffor.

Concluded from page 199.]

EXPERIMENT IX.

horse, nine years old, in the confirmed glanders, was put under the treatment above mentioned, but without being trepanned. The fecond medicine, administered on the 2d day, gave him a cholic, which was followed by a fuper-purgation. He immediately fwallowed an aftringent drink compofed of one ounce of diafcordium, one ounce of prepared chalk, and two ounces of honey, boiled in three pints of red wine. This drink was repeated four times in twen ty-four hours, but without fuccefs. The animal died on the 3d day. I discovered, on opening the nofe, that the pituitary membrane was ulcerated on the right fide only. The zygomatic finus was filled with whitish and purulent matter. The lungs were flightly inflamed; but the intestines and the ftomach were much more fo. This laft obfervation proves that the animal was of a very irritable difpofition of body, and that the cathartics had been a real poifon to him; as they generally are to all horfes, if not

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EXPERIMENT X.

Two horses, the one an English hunter, the other a Neapolitan manage-horfe; the firft ten years old, the fecond twelve; having contracted the glanders in the fame ftable, were fubmitted to the following treatment:

ift, I caufed the hair of both to be shaved, from the neck down to the buttocks, and as low on each fide as the middle of the body.

2dly, I caufed emollient fomentations to be applied all over the body for the space of a week.

3dly, I employed frictions of mercurial ointment over the buttocks, about one ounce at a time; which I continued every other day for twelve days.

4thly, 1 made four frictions on the rump, by one ounce and a half of ditto every other day.

5thly, I made two frictions on the loins, with the fame dofe as the preceding one, and in the fame interval of time.

The 21ft day, the symptoms had not varied.

The 22d, the parotids began to fwell.

The 23d, the maxillary glands were in the fame condition. The frictions were made on the back, from the loins to the withers.

The 24th, all the parts of the head were greatly fwelled in the Neapolitan, and falivation began to take place.

The 25th, he could not open his jaws; I therefore let him blood twice the fame day. I repeatedly injected into his mouth barley water with honey; and I gave him, the fame night, a laxative clyfter, compofed of four ounces of catholicon, diffolved in boiling water. The injections in

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