THE NOBLE SCIENCE. 45 



" Oderunt peccare boni virtutis am ore, 

 Oderunt peccare mali, formidiue pcence :" 



which (as, perhaps, less common, or Latin grammar-like, 

 than some of my classical quotations) I may, for the 

 benefit of country gentlemen, thus freely translate : 



" The good, for goodness' sake, will fear to falter ; 

 The bad keep good, — because they fear a halter." 



And thus, with hounds, some will require no inducement 

 to do right ; others will only be restrained by fear of 

 correction, from doing wrong. There is still another 

 class to be added to this catalogue — those determined 

 delinquents, whose errors of omission or commission 

 may be briefly summed up in the conclusion that they 

 are literally good for nothing. This will now and then 

 be the case, even with the best bred and best shaped. 

 These must be at once put away, if only for reasons 

 intelligible to every one conversant with a saying con- 

 cerning " evil communication." If they are good (as a 

 friend of mine affirms that they are) to make ajDple-trees 

 grow, the sooner they are buried in the nearest orchard 

 the better. They may do for transportation to "the 

 Ingies;" but will do you no credit, if included in any 

 draft to another kennel. Now, to cherish all the merit, 

 — to obviate, as far as possible, all the defects ; to study 

 the peculiarities ; and to make himself acquainted with 

 the disposition of every hound in the pack, is the 

 duty of a huntsman, no less than it is that of a training 

 groom, to consider the difference of constitution, and 



