ESSAY ON BREAKING 



THE 



ENGLISH SPANIEL, #c. 



IN A 



LETTER TO A FRIEND. 



SIR, 



As I have always looked upon a promise, 

 even on a trivial subject, as a thing of some 

 solemnity, I can not hold myself acquitted, 

 without the attempt, at least, to fulfil an obli- 

 gation, which the. approach of the season, and 

 your wishes recently transmitted to me, remind 

 me of. I have been urging my mind, therefore, 

 to the recall of thoughts and of notions on the 

 subject of a pursuit once so agreeable to me, 

 and on which the exhibition of niy practice 

 with you has made you conceive that it is in my 

 power to convey useful instruction. Heaven 

 knows ! it is in a state most unfitted for a task 

 so immediately connected with the idea of 

 cheerfulness and all thegayeties of health. But, 

 whatever be the sighs which the comparison of 



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