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and not the words, that they understand ; and hounds 

 will always draw to the voice, if it be not a rate. 

 This shows the impropriety of hallooing behind 

 hounds. In running with good scent, if you are 

 up with the pack, a cheering halloo does no harm ; 

 the hounds will not attend to it, and it is expres- 

 sive of the pleasure of the hallooer. Never cap 

 hounds with loud halloos to a bad scent ; capping 

 makes them wild and eager, and should never be 

 done but when the scent is high. Hounds should 

 be brought up gently to a cold scent.'" Hollooing 

 to hounds is often necessar}^ and highly useful 

 when done with judgment ; but the word " tallyho"*' 

 loses many a good run ; as, unless a fox is gone 

 clear away from his cover, it occasions him to turn 

 back often into the mouth of the hounds. 



Dog Language. — It is true, no correspondence 

 can subsist between beings whose natures are se- 

 parated by a chasm so wide as that between rational 

 and irrational animals ; and it is with a view of 

 adapting our meaning to the level of their under- 

 standings, that we generally address or converse 

 with brutes in a silly unmeaning manner ; which 

 gave rise to the remark, that children, or men who 

 act like children, have animals more immediately 

 under their control than the philosopher who is re- 

 plete with wisdom. But we may look farther into 

 the subject than this. If the Almighty had not 

 manifested some portion of his attributes by means 

 which are on a level with the capacity of the human 

 race, man must have remained for ever ignorant of 



