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" nding like the devil,'' will never keep things straight in 

 the departments subject to his regulation. His mind, 

 being brutalized, will be incapable of appreciating the 

 dignity of his station ; he will be wholly unsusceptible of 

 any but the grosser elements of his vocation ; and he 

 will be utterly destitute of that pure enjoyment and 

 delight in his duty, which may be so truly said to make 

 toil a pleasure, where a huntsman is characterized by 

 the reverse of these degrading attributes, and stands as 

 a pattern of happiness and contentment in the state of 

 life to w-hich he has been called. For the honour of 

 the craft, for our own honour, I am happy to state that I 

 could name many who might say with the poet, 



" The labour we delight in physics pain ;" 



whose example will, I trust, descend to all ages : but it 

 would, of course, be invidious here to mention them 

 particularly. "VVe will only hope that these laudable 

 characteristics are to be found in the majority of hunts- 

 men throughout merry England : I should say, the whole 

 of Great Britain, or world of chase. 



You will be fortunate if, in addition to the advantage 

 of some education, and that of being altogether a 

 rational being, your huntsman be possessed of that 

 rare qualification, — a good temper. A man may be 

 strictly honest, and clever in his business, but may 

 have an infirmity of temper which will destroy all plea- 

 sure in the comminiion and intercourse which should 

 exist between him and the master. He should thank- 



