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tUserlmiiiation than foolish people give them credit 

 for. If I were to see or hear a loud, liarsli word, 

 and a rude blow, administered by a man of mine 

 to any creature under his care, I would not retain 

 him long' in my service. The dog-whip, if so 

 it can be called, that I carry in my pocket, was 

 the thong of her little donkey whip, given to me 

 by a little child who deemed it needful to her 

 quadruped's progression : it Avould not kill a fly 

 on the back of the dog, nor induce anything ap- 

 proaching to a cry of pain, but it is ample as a 

 signal of rej)roof To give a dog or horse a second 

 blow is, for the time, utterly useless. The dog and 

 liorse fully comprehend for why you struck them 

 in the first instance, but if you repeat the punish- 

 ment, all remembrance of the fault is lost in the 

 terror inspired hj the after circumstance : the dog 

 turns the tables and bites at the undiscriminating 

 hand, and the horse meditates the possibility 

 of kicking off his brutal rider, and running 

 away. 



To a dog, whatever may l^e liis fault, one l)low 

 and have done with it ; to a liorse, one touch of 

 the spur, and let there be an end of reproof, at all 

 events, till dog or horse offend again. Let tlie 



