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a hound, by giving vent to his own irritation at the 

 trouble he may have found in " (jettiiKj at him" Dogs 

 will not, like Mrs. Bond's ducks in the song, "come and 

 be killed ;" they not only know when they are wrong, 

 and have incurred the lash, but are good physiogno- 

 mists, reading your intentions in your looks ; and it is 

 not surprising that a young hound, on hearing, " bless- 

 ings upon his carcass," accompanied by a fervent pro- 

 mise to '' cut him in two " if he is to be got at, with 

 corresponding evidences of determination in perform- 

 ance, should endeavour to take the will for the deed, 

 and lead Mr. Jack or Bill a dance, which generally ends 

 in trebling the castigation in the long run, and not un - 

 frequently in being ridden over and left for dead. This 

 should not be ; hounds, if struck, and we all know 

 that struck they must be, and severely too, should be 

 struck, and then rated — not rated with a loud warning, 

 like the bell of a watchman, to give thieves notice of his 

 approach — and then hunted or ridden down, as is too 

 commonly the case. I am inclined to think, that if, after 

 one crack of the whip, and a hearty rate, they fly at once 

 cowering to the huntsman's heels, the end is ansM^ered, 

 without any occasion for further chastisement. A hound 

 which has felt the lash so as to have reason to remem- 

 ber the voice \f\iic\\ followed its application, will be more 

 likely to fly from that voice, when rated in the middle 

 of a covert, perhaps, inaccessible ; but if it is not suffi- 

 ciently clear that he might not equally dread the con- 

 junction of both, whichever might have the precedence, 



