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for correction. 1 gave him a ''good talking to" and 

 ordered him to lie down near me under the table, 

 where I believed he would be out of mischief. I went 

 on with my work and thought he was asleep, but when 

 I bent down and looked at him, I found him busy at a 

 large hole he was biting in our carpet ! It was all my 

 fault — he ought to have had a bone. 



We now com.e to the important question of corporal 

 punishment, which I have deferred, as I hate it, but I 

 know that it is a necessary evil. Solomon's warnino- 

 about sparing the rod is more applicable, I think, to 

 foxhounds than to children, for the spoilt hound has 

 before him a fearful day of reckoning which a child may 

 escape. Therefore our supposed kindness in ignoring 

 sins of omission or commission is, in the case of a 

 young hound, a cruel wrong which will assuredly cause 

 him a great deal of suffering that timely correction on 

 our part may avert. In the first place we ought to 

 insist on implicit obedience, not by coaxing, but by 

 the whip, for if a hound wilfully disobeys the person 

 whom he loves as his mother, how much less will he 

 be inclined to obey the orders of a stranger who is his 

 whipper-in ? When it is necessary to punish a glaring 

 offence concerning which the lady walker, who is acting 

 the part of mentor, has given an unheeded warning, 

 the offender should be well whipped by someone told 

 off to perform this operation, and when they fly to her 

 for sympathy, she should remain silent as one who 

 knows they have been justly punished. If she has to 

 undertake these salutary thrashings herself, she should 



