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body, without sensibility of nerves, or as if 

 they were not endowed with the spirit which 

 recoils from unkindness, with the hope that 

 shrinks from disappointment, or with the 

 limb that fails from exertion. There is not 

 one of that faithful class of creatures coming 

 within the denomination of the dog more 

 capable of individual affection than the fox- 

 hound, and scarcely one of them that equals 

 him in endurance, perseverance and self- 

 devotedness. 



^' To his huntsman — the man that ought to 

 be his chum in his sports, rather than his 

 taskmaster — the hound is ever more or less 

 attached, according as the humanity or other- 

 wise, of the latter may deserve. His character 

 takes its tone from his example ; if the 

 huntsman is quiet, quick and steady, so is 

 the hound, if ^vild and uncertain, and noisy, 

 so is the hound, and if slack, slow and 

 spiritless, the hound becomes the same. Let 

 the huntsman love the animal under his charge ; 

 let him attend to his comforts ; nurse him in 

 his sickness, and share in his sorrows ; aid him 



