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to add to the animal's fear of the object he is unwilling 

 to approach, his infinitely greater fear of a pair of plated 

 spurs. 



The oftener and the stronger this ignorant prescription 

 is applied, the more violent becomes the disease it under- 

 takes to alleviate, until, on its being declared to be incur- 

 able, the poor frightened animal is sold for a fault almost 

 entirely created by human hands and inhuman heels. 



The extent to which a timid animal can be appeased 

 by kindness is, at the present moment, beautifully exem- 

 plified by a deer, which has been so divested of its fears 

 by Tom Hill, the huntsman of the Surrey foxhounds, that 

 the animal not only accompanies the hounds when taken 

 out for exercise, but eats biscuit, and actually sleeps with 

 them in the kennel. 



If, during their meal, two of the hounds fight, by a 

 pat with his fore feet he tries to separate 'them. If, at 

 exercise, anything alarms him, with a bound or two he 

 vaults for safety into the middle of the pack. And yet, 

 when in this citadel, if any strange dog approaches them, 

 with malice prepense he rushes out at him, as if deter- 

 mined to kill him. In short, by kind superintendence 

 the deer has become as fond of blood-thirsty hounds as 

 they of him. ,. 



