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they are hunting. Animals of all sorts are wonder- 

 fully quick in comprehending signals : witness the 

 learned pigs, and so forth, that perform such in- 

 credible feats, as telling the hour by a watch, and 

 the like ; which is done by their observing signals 

 from the showman, that none of the audience can 

 detect, In like manner, dogs come to read aright 

 every expression of their master's face ; but not till 

 they have long experience of it. Have patience, then, 

 with your team of pointers, and you will be repaid 

 with interest, They will not understand your looks 

 by intuition ; nor probably till they have seen the 

 frown repeated a hundred times, with which you 

 greeted them, when they soiled your first pair of 

 white trowsers by leaping on them. 



