THE LIFE OF A FOXHOUND. 87 



Dothing like encouragement to the young and 

 inexperienced. The difficulties of attaining 

 anything worth learning are always great, 

 and using harsh and severe means on the part 

 of the teachers only makes the attempt more 

 painful and repulsive. Punishment is, 

 occasionally, indispensable for obstinacy or 

 repeated offences; but there is nothing like a 

 cheer for improvement. 



After breakfast, and when we were all 

 assembled in the court, the subject of scent 

 was again renewed by Levity observing, in a 

 confidential whisper to me, but which was 

 overheard by Trimbush, '* that she very much 

 questioned the correctness of the old hound's 

 opinion concerning it." 



** You question?" snarled Trimbush. 

 " We shall certainly hear," continued he, 

 *' of mewling, puking babes teaching their 

 grandmothers to suck eggs, by and bye." 



Levity looked abashed at this satirical 

 remark, and, burying her nose between her 

 fore feet, appeared resolved to give herself to 

 silence bordering on the sulky. 



** There's nothing so puzzling, nothing so 

 difficult to comprehend by the best and most 

 experienced of us," said Trimbush, address- 



