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i'ng of it from our hands, that I fhould be forry to 

 diftarb his hours of repofe by unnoceflary feverity. 

 You will perceive it is a nice affair; and I affure 

 you I. know no huntfman who is equal to it. The 

 gentleman \vho has carried this matter to its 

 mofl perfection, has attended to it regularly him* 

 felf; has conftantly a(5led on fixed principles, 

 from which he has never deviated ; and I believe 

 has fucceeded to the very utmoft of his wifhes. — > 

 All hounds, (and more efpecially young ones) 

 lliould be called over often in the kennel ;* and 

 moft huntfinen pracliie this leffon, as they feed 

 their hounds. — They flog them while they feed 

 them — and if they have not always a belly-full 

 one way, tliey feldom fail to have it the other.-^ 



* There is no better method of teaching a Iiound obedience; 

 when you call him, he ftiould approach you ; when you touch 

 him with your ftick, he Ihould follow you any where. 



f " Thus we find, eat or not eat, work or play, whipping is 

 always in feafon." (vide Monthly Review) The critic treats this 

 paflage with great feverity. He would have fpared it, without 

 doubt, had he underftood that it was introduced on purpofe to 

 correfc the abufe of kennel difcipline. Unacquainted, as the 

 Reviewer feems to be with the fubjeft, it is no wonder that he 

 (hould miflake a meaning, perhaps rather unfairly dated by the 

 author, in favor of that humanity he is fuppofed fo much to 

 want. — Hounds are called in to feed, one by one, and fuch only 

 are correfted, as come uncalled for : nor is correction unjufl, fo 

 long as it iliall fall on the difobedient only. Obedience is an ufe- 

 f'dl leffbn, and though it cannot be /)r«i?//i'^ too often, it Ihould 

 be taup;/ii them at a more idle time. 



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