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to your sense of its value, and after all due 

 meditation on the incontrovertible truth of what 

 may be received as an axiom, viz. that " the 

 dog- who hunts his ground the truest, will 

 always find the most game," to lay this ground- 

 work, and to labour with unabating perseverance 

 towards its completion : and, for pity's sake, do 

 not you, who in the scope of country around 

 you have so instantly at hand the superior 

 means of creating excellence and beauty; I 

 say, Sir, do not you, upon a principle of indo- 

 lence, or seduced by the hope of a surer mid- 

 day find, and by the paltry consideration of a 

 few brace of birds more during his first season, 

 begin by degrading your pupil into a low and 

 despicable bog-trotter; and so cut off all the 

 promising blossoms of high range for ever. If 

 your ideas do not rise above this, I am indeed 

 wasting paper most sadly: but, I will hope 

 better of you ; and will, therefore, go on. 



Look ! to the right ! see ! he finds ; I hope, 

 for his sake, he does not blunder up the first 

 bird without finding, i. e. feeling it in his nose : 

 he stops ; presses onward : notice him, the 

 instant you perceive him find, with a smart 

 " Cato ! Cato ! have a care !" and, in a marked 

 and lengthened tone, "TAKE HEED!" which is 

 henceforth -to be to him a word of so much 



