letter. " A week or ten days hence," you reply, 

 " we shall have a cart going; and, as there are 



yet three weeks to come before " Sir, you 



will excuse me; but I can not admit an inclina- 

 tion on your part to fly off, in limine, from the 

 letter of my instructions. It is not directly 

 with a view to the longer advantage that will 

 be thus afforded you of taking him out, and of 

 introducing him to a knowledge of his game 

 before the season actually begins. "bu do not 

 apprehend my motives: I must be allowed, 

 however, to renew my peremptory order to have 

 him sent for immediately; and, on his arrival, 

 let him be shut up in some agreeable, but 

 retired situation, well bedded with clean straw: 

 clear his nose, if necessary ; this will be effected 

 by two or three doses of one to two ounces of 

 Jlor. sulph. Keep him thus chained up under your 

 own immediate care : feed him yourself; yes, 

 Sir, by no means let his food come from any 

 person but yourself, and that at some regular 

 hour. In a morning give him a short airing in 

 the field behind you; let him gambol off at 

 pleasure, but under the occasional check and 

 acquired command of " COME IN here!" being 

 the first word he has to learn in your voca- 

 bulary: no permission to bound over the fence, 

 nor to be off beyond the perfect control of 

 your eye and voice: no rambling about to pick 



