PSEUDONYMOUS FOOT BEAGLES 



IN the foregoing pages I have endeavoured 

 to describe what immense pleasure can be 

 derived by pedestrians with a pack of small 

 hounds that have been improved and brought 

 to a high pitch of perfection by judicious 

 management, and knowledge gained by ex- 

 perience. Let me now ask my readers to 

 look at the other side of the picture, and 

 allow me to show, by an imaginary descrip- 

 tion, how easily an established and good 

 little pack may be broken up, and a number 

 of people's pleasure be spoilt, by an inex- 

 perienced and vain fool taking upon himself 

 duties which he does not understand, and 



for which Nature never intended him. I 



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