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When they have been walked often in this 

 manner amongst the sheep, you may then un- 

 couple a few at a time, and begin to chastise 

 such as offer to run after them ; but you will 

 soon find that the cry of ware sheep, will stop 

 them sufficiently, without the whip ; and the 

 less this is used, the better. With proper care 

 and attention, you will soon make them ashamed 

 of it ; but if once suffered to taste the blood, you 

 may find it difficult to reclaim them afterwards. 

 Various are the methods used to break such dogs 

 from sheep; some will couple them to a ram, 

 but that is breaking them with a vengeance ; 

 you had better hang them. A late lord of my 

 acquaintance, who had heard of this method, 

 and whose whole pack had been often guilty of 

 killing sheep, determined to punish them, and 

 to that intent put the largest ram he could find 

 into his kennel. The men with their whips and 

 voices, and the ram with his horns, soon put the 

 whole kennel into confusion and dismay, and the 

 hounds and ram were then left together. Meet- 

 ing a friend soon after, " Come," said he, " come 

 with me to the kennel, and see what rare sport the 

 ram makes among the hounds : the old fellow lays 

 about him stoutly, I assure you — egad he trims 

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