THE NOBLE SCIENCE. 



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Perfection enters not within the scale of human 

 nature ; but if you get a servant possessing all that I 

 have described as indispensable, and more which I have 

 named, and may recommend, as desirable qualifications, 

 you may consider him invaluable ; — that his interests are 

 identified with your own : — you will hold him entitled to 

 your fullest confidence; you w411 afibrd him ever}^ facility 

 of improving himself, and you will take care that he 

 has wherewithal to be happy and contented in your 

 service. His comforts, and those of his wife and family, 

 if he has either, or both, should not be overlooked ; 

 and he should have no reasonable grounds of complaint, 

 as to the horses which he is obliged to ride, the subordi- 

 nates for whose efficiencies he is answerable, or with 

 regard to any of the minor details, constituting the 

 material upon which he has to construct the edifice 

 which you desire to rear— and to uphold, as a pattern 

 of something " done well and as it should be done." 



day's work, but was always more or less unsound. My huntsman, ap- 

 plying tlie knife to a callous tumour on the back sinews of his near fore- 

 leg, laid it open to the joint ; and, from underneath the leaders, extracted 

 an enormous piece of blackthorn, which, having worked in, had bedded 

 itself amongst the fibres, and there remained for two years. The dog 

 soon became perfectly sound. I have preserved the thorn, measuring 

 nearly three inches, as a curiosity. 





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