VI. PREFACE. 



elegance of style I have no pretensions, neither would finely 

 rounded sentences or sesquepedalia verba have consorted with 

 the object I had first in view ; but if, perchance, I may be 

 the instrument of imparting some little knowledge to the 

 uninitiated, and obtain for my dumb friends, the hounds, some 

 more humane treatment than they have heretofore in many- 

 instances experienced, the object of these Letters will be ac- 

 complished by 



THE AUTHOR. 



October, 1852. 



