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giving it a sharp pull when the dog did wrong, 

 and patting him kindly when he did right. In this 

 manner he taught some of his non-sporting dogs 

 to play all sorts of tricks, such as picking out the 

 card chosen by any spectator from a number placed 

 in a circle on the floor, the signal being one 

 momentary glance at the card, &c. &c. Sir John 

 published a pamphlet on the subject, and sent 

 copies of it to the sporting gentlemen and keepers 

 in the county, I fear with little effect; men are 

 so apt to vent their own bad temper on their dogs 

 and horses. 



At one of the battues at Beech wood, Chantrey killed 

 two woodcocks at one shot. Mr. Hudson Gurney 

 some time after saw a brace of woodcocks carved in 

 marble in Chan trey's studio ; Chantrey told him of 

 his shot and the difficulty of finding a suitable 

 inscription, and that it had been tried in Latin 

 and even Greek without success. Mr. Gurney said it 

 should be very simple, such as : 



Driven from the north, where winter starved them, 

 Chantrey first shot, and then he carved them. 



Beechwood was one of the few places in Great 

 Britain in which hawking was kept up. The falcons 

 were brought from Flanders, for, except in the Isle 

 of Skye, they have been extirpated in Great Britain^ 

 like many other of our fine indigenous birds. Sir 



