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a situation for which Nature evidently never intended 

 them. I have been more than once reminded of a 

 London coachman's query to a rustic Jehu, who was 

 striving to wagon his way through the city : " I 

 say, Johnny Raw, who feeds the pigs when you be 

 driving?" And some would-be huntsmen, within my 

 memory, would probably have made very good feeders, 

 but certainly should never have left the precincts of the 

 boiling house. We will suppose that you have one 

 brought up to the business : — one who has served an 

 apprenticeship to the service. There are, I believe, few 

 instances of good huntsmen who have not been bred 

 and born, as they call it, to the kennel ; and most of 

 them have commenced their career as whippers-in, 

 during which period of probation they acquire an insight 

 into the practical parts of their duty, and, subsequently, 

 if they have the advantages of education, will endeavom- 

 to improve their minds, to exercise their powers of 

 reason, to seek information, and dive into the theory of 

 the science. We are told that knowledge is power; 

 and I hold it as a fact beyond dispute, that in any and 

 every occupation or employment in life, from that of the 

 metaphysician and philosopher, to the daily labourer; 

 from the inventor of steam, to the smith who forges the 

 iron for the engine, the power of mind will prevail. 

 The progress of each will be promoted in proportion to 

 the weight of intellect brought to bear upon the prin- 



