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best dogs will occasionally make mistakes when they 

 are running down wind especially if it blows hard, 

 and that there are days when there is scarcely any scent. 

 Note to 128. 



263. Attend most carefully to the injunction not to 

 let your dog hunt out of sight. It is essential that 

 you do so. 



264. Notwithstanding Beckford's capital story of the 

 hounds making a dinner of the old ram which his lord- 

 ship had left in their kennel to intimidate them, if your 

 dog be unhappily too fond of mutton or lamb of his own 

 killing, perhaps no better cure can be attempted, provided 

 you superintend the operation, than that of muzzling 

 him, and letting a strong ram give him a butting at the 

 time that you are administering the lash, and hallooing 

 out " Ware " or " Sheep." But, unfortunately, this too 

 often fails. 



265. If you do not succeed, you must hang or drown 

 him, the latter is probably the less painful death, but a 

 charge of shot well lodged behind the ear in the direc- 

 tion of the brain would be yet better. Therefore you will 

 not mind giving him another chance for his life, though 

 confessedly the measure proposed is most barbarous. 

 Procure an ash-pole about five feet long. Tie one extre- 

 mity of the pole to a strong ram, by the part of the horns 

 near the forehead. To the opposite extremity of the pole 

 attach a strong spiked collar, and strap it round the dog's 

 throat, to the audible tune of "Ware" or "Sheep." 

 To prevent the possibility of the cord slipping, 



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