wrong side of an unit, signifying nothing; for 

 the poor animal has not a single idea put into 

 his head about the great business of finding 

 game, and is totally lost without his fugelman : 

 like the witless eleves of other hireling acade- 

 mies, he returns home from this mockery of 

 education with every thing to learn. You, 

 however, are not in a situation of thus squan- 

 dering money, or of wasting time; and so much 

 the better for your dog; for whom I have 

 in contemplation a better tutor and a wiser 

 master. Besides, in the commencement of a 

 system, when I am engaged in laying be- 

 fore you the ground-work of education, I feel 

 myself bound to keep general principles in view; 

 and, considering the matter as a general ques- 

 tion, I must repeat that I am no advocate for 

 the common practice of a prefatory breaking-in, 

 without the object of killing the game being 

 made a part of the lesson: it is to trifle away 

 time; or, perhaps worse, to trifle away atten- 

 tion by the unexplained foolery of pursuit 

 without object ; and to throw a damp over the 

 rising ardour of that pursuit, by the perpetual 

 disappointment of instinctive wishes. This is 

 an observation which must be understood sub 

 modo; and I have it not in my plan to enlarge 

 upon the modifications which, in various cases, 

 or even in yours perhaps, this treatment must 



