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to evade the ill effects of which, nocturnal 

 shelter will very much contribute. 



Notwithstanding every possible informa- 

 tion that can be introduced, such variety of 

 case may occur, with so great a complication 

 of circumstances, that no literary description, 

 however diffuse, can prove completely ade-. 

 quate to every idea upon the subject ; condi- 

 tional instructions must always become sub- 

 servient to the discriminating judgment of 

 the owner or superintendant, upon whose fa- 

 vourable opinion or prejudice, caprice or 

 compliance, will depend the effect of the 

 whole ; and to such precarious decision alone 

 must the w^riter ultimately submit the con- 

 sistency and execution of his directions, 

 though he were to produce an immaculate 

 volume upon the subject. 



Conscious, however, of the compulsive 

 necessity for such dependence, and the diver- 

 sity of cases requiring conditional changes to 

 the variety of circumstances that may occur, 

 no particular zveek or ??io}ifk can be invaria- 

 bly fixed for weaning ; as some of the con- 



