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ping such as are riotous, and should get them 

 forward. They may be condemned upon the 

 spot, but the punishment should be deferred till 

 the next day, when they may be taken out on 

 purpose to commit the fault, and suffer the 

 punishment. I agree with you, that young 

 hounds cannot be awed too much ; yet suffer 

 not your punishment of them to exceed their 

 offence. I could wish to draw a line betwixt 

 justice and barbarity.* 



A whipper-in, while breaking-in young 

 hounds, sometimes will rate them before they 

 commit the fault : this prevents them for that 

 time; but they will be just as ready to begin 

 the next opportunity. Had he not better let 

 them quite alone, till he sees what they would 

 be at ? The discipline then may be propor- 

 tioned to the degree of the offence. Whether 

 a riotous young hound runs little or much is of 

 small consequence, if he be not encouraged : it 



* I am sorry that it should be necessary to explain what 

 I mean by barbarity: I mean that punishment which is 

 either unnecessarily inflicted, which is inflicted with 

 severity, or from which no possible good can arise. Punish- 

 ment, when properly applied, is not cruelty, is not revenge 

 — it is justice, it is even mercy. The intention of punish- 

 ment is to prevent crimes, and consequently to prevent the 

 necessity of punishing. 



