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HOLD UP, good dog !" again presently recall- 

 ing him, showing him on his road the other 

 way, and giving him by these seemings of 

 example, his first rudiments in the crosses of 

 quartering. It is hard work at first ; so is the 

 business of all sound instruction ; drudgery ! 

 sad drudgery! But at present you are fully 

 able, or to a pupil of powers you would be 

 incompetent to the office of a tutor ; and if you 

 would lay a good foundation, you must not 

 make account of the toil ; you will be amply 

 repaid hereafter. It is not of importance how 



the perpetual fretful interruptions to beat, which it occasions, 

 operates against the very principle of a radical cure. Where 

 the circumstance arises, as is frequently the case, from a 

 dulness of nose, which is obliged to seek for information 

 downwards; or perhaps from some bastardizing touch of 

 derivation from a dog of an inferior trade, the proper 

 employment of whose nose is on the ground; these are 

 defects which will never be cured by splicing a bit of stick 

 to the under-jaw, and you may as well let the half-bred 

 creature grub on untormented in his own way. The only 

 real remedy, with an animal that is worth cultivating into 

 form, is to get the dog on, and to keep him up in rate ; to 

 give him a confidence in himself; and, as he rises in 

 acquaintance with his game, he will elevate his nose, as well 

 as his notions, to superior objects, and get above being 

 stopped by every babbling inquiry. There is yet a stronger 

 reason for getting the better of this propensity : if permitted 

 to work like a hound upon the foil, he will infallibly acquire 

 a habit of puzzling up too near the game, without being 

 early enough alarmed into that instructive stop, by which he 

 is to be wrought up into the dignity of a pointer. 



