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between huntsman and hound, as it is to 

 induce reliance in each other between a general 

 and his army. You do not make a boy steady 

 by keeping him constantly confined to his 

 room; you do not break a retriever by 

 keeping him tied up ; and you cannot break a 

 hound of faults unless you let them develop 

 themselves naturally and then place, evidently, 

 before him, the path of vice and the path 

 of virtue. You might as well attempt to 

 be beforehand with the faults of humanity, 

 and whip infants at the breast, as lash a 

 young hound until he knows right from 

 wrong." 



With those views I entirely agree, and 

 I have valued the Hon. Grantley Berkeley's 

 advice so highly that I have always treasured 

 the magazines in which his articles appeared. 

 His theory of treating hounds differs some- 

 what from the modern way, but experience 

 will prove to you that he was right. Again, 

 he wrote : — 



*^ When I first commenced fox-hunting in 

 Bedfordshire, on running a fox to ground, 



