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☉country go hunting by themselves.  They run about in the woods, start a Fox, run him until he is tired, the Fox takes to a Tree - the dogs commence barking, out goes the hunter, & then crossed  out: Mr Reynard he is up a tall pine, a Ball is put through his head & Voila Reynard, a victim at your feet.  Just now plenty Quail

Saturday 25th Mg cool, cloudy & airs from S.W. Sprinkling of rain all day - Dine with Mr ____ a Hunter in the vicinity, all appears to go on well with him, he understands his occupation & is industrious without incommoding either his ? or himself, His wife, tho' young & apparently delicately brought up, tasked about, amused herself weaving & kept the negresses at their Spinning. We sat down to an excellent & ? palatable dinner, & served up very well, true we did not sit over our ? & discuss politics, but the time is not far distant when, hot Toddy's will be introduced after dinner in Winter, ? & Texan Wines, or Sangaries in Summer. After dinner P