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though with more difficulty than formerly, to be 

 procured; and to let me attend, like a familiar, 

 at your elbow, as you now proceed in your 

 attempt to exemplify them. I shall be relieved 

 thus from the dull task of tracing, in a didactic 

 form on paper, little minute regulations, and 

 shall thus be enabled to render myself more 

 briefly, as well as forcibly intelligible. So, Sir, 

 we are about to take the field in earnest: you 

 are equipped ; and we are setting off. Stop, a 

 moment; "COME IN HERE, Cato! will you? 

 See the wanton devil has got a hundred yards 

 ahead, "COME IN, I say." Remember this; it 

 is one of the first secrets in the science of dog- 

 breaking, and it has an influence far above your 

 power at present to conceive, never to suffer 

 him, when going upon actual service, nor indeed 

 upon common occasions of mere travel on a 

 road, to have his nose ahead of you. It is no 

 more than decent to see an older dog at heel, 

 and in order ; but with an untutored younker it 

 is absolutely indispensable, as the means to 

 acquire command. I repeat it, therefore, never 

 suffer your dog to put his nose ahead of you. 

 Keep him, literally so, close to your knee ; 

 check him with the voice, with the crack of the 

 whip, and thence to a good round trimming, if 

 a most perfect and direct obedience to " Come 

 in here," is not otherwise to be obtained. For 



