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burgh Review ; on this point we have nothing 

 to say here, except to remark en passant, that it 

 is a far pleasanter thing for us to spend two or 

 three weeks of a season, in close companionship 

 with a high-bred, intelligent, joyous-hearted ani- 

 mal, than to be shut up for the same time with 

 an austere, pedantic theologian, even though he 

 be a biped of the true Pharasaical leaven, with his 

 bond of immortality signed and sealed in his 

 pocket. But it is high time we had the reader 

 up and out. 



In the first place, eight or ten hours of unbro- 

 ken rest on the night previous is very desirable 

 especially if you are in a section of the country 

 where game abound, and are disposed to keep 

 up your work. We used to be careless on this 

 point in "our salad days;" but now, although 

 we do not mind hunting from dawn until dusk, 

 we invariably retire betimes. In the w^ords of 

 the sporting song, 



" It will not do .again to say, 



Tho' hearts be still as light, 

 That we have hunted all the day, 



And revelled all the night." 



The dogs, too, must be carefully attended to. 

 Be sure that they get a good meat supper and 

 are securely lodged on clean litter, with a bucket 



