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this reason, your first lessons must be on foot ; 

 and do not mount a horse, until you are 

 decidedly master here. I must insist upon 

 your attention to this ; for I want to arrest and 

 to ingross that of your dog, undisturbed and 

 undiverted by gossiping or trifling, or by any 

 other object than that which is about to be 

 presented to him ; and I have to employ his 

 disposition to be off upon his range, to better 

 purpose than that of the undirected scamper 

 of a puppy, who has just found the use of 

 his legs, and is willing to try how fast they 

 will carry him. It is owing to a lazy inatten- 

 tion on this head, for it requires some trouble 

 at first, that many a dog gives you ten times 

 more plague in perfecting than he other- 

 wise would do: Remember, therefore, the 

 whip in hand ; the dog close to your knee ; 

 we are going upon duty ; no wantoning, no 

 trifling ! And so proceed, until you come upon 

 your ground, to throw him off in form. 



For this purpose, choose the finest piece of 

 unbroken ground of fair extent, and where you 

 are likely to find. Here you have an instant 

 advantage which scarcely any man can equally 

 possess; and it were unpardonable, therefore, 

 to lose it, by failing in the very commencement 

 to teach him, what, if neglected, he will not 



