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admit of. Suffice it to say, excepting that a 

 young dog should be taken out to know, and 

 to enjoy, under command, the scent of his 

 game; and so be led yes, Sir, led* back again, 

 in order the better to fix attention : I would 

 have mine, prepared as above, brought directly 

 to his work, and to the actual business of having 

 game killed before him. It is here implied 

 that he has been made familiar with the gun, in 

 the course of your visits to him, and to stand fire 

 by degrees, and to enjoy it as a signal for food, 

 or as the prelude to the little privilege of being 

 occasionally at liberty under your eye, during 

 his novitiate, as above directed. 



I shall be under the necessity, I believe, 

 of transporting myself, in idea I mean, nearly 

 four hundred miles: ah! Sir, would that it 

 were as easily practicable in reality ! in order, 

 in some measure, to accompany you during the 

 earlier part at least of these instructions. You 

 have only to borrow a little of the second sight 

 upon this occasion ; a commodity which, amidst 

 the recesses of your mountains, is yet, I fancy, 



* I may, probably, seek occasion to discuss this point 

 of discipline hereafter ; but I can not pause here to give my 

 reasons at large why, after having his faculties first awakened 

 to the perception of his game, I am prescribing this con- 

 strained mode of conducting your pupil home again. 



