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them to exceed their offence. I could vvifli to 

 draw a Hne betwixt juflice and barbarity.* 



A whipper-in, while breaking in young hounds, 

 fometimes will rate them before they commit the 

 fault : this may, perhaps, prevent them for that 

 time, but they will be jull as ready to begin the 

 next opportunity. Had he not better let them 

 quite alone till he fee what they would be at ? 

 The dilciplinc then may be proportioned to the 

 degree of the offence. Whether a riotous young 

 hound run little or much is of fmall confequence 

 if he be not encouraged ; it is the blood only 

 that fignifies, which in every kind of riot fhould 

 carefully be prcvented.-f* 



* I am forry that It {hoiild be neccfTary to explain what I 

 mean by barbarity. I mean that punifliment, which is either 

 unneceflarily inflicled; which is infli6led with feverity; or 

 from which no poffible good can arife. Punifliment, when 

 properly applied, is not cruelty, is not revenge, it is juftice; 

 it is even mercy. The intention of punifliment is to prevent 

 crimes, and, confequently, to prevent the neceffity of punifliing. 



f It is not meant that hounds fliould be fuffered to continue 

 on a wrong fcent longer than may be necelTary to know that 

 the fcent is a wrong one. This paflage refers to page 88, 

 where the author's meaning is more fully explained. It is in- 

 troduced here more ftrongly to mark the danger of encouraging 

 hounds on a wrong fcent, and indulging them afterwards in the 

 blood of it. 



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