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hopes to catch it. This is all nature ; it is not 

 vice: it is by neglect alone at this moment, 

 from indolence, or the wish of following up the 

 game, that it will be converted into vice. Sir, 

 the dog was overcome, staggered out of all self- 

 command, by the overpowering enjoyment of 

 the scent: but, see! he comes back, looking 

 like a fool, as he has found himself; he stands 

 aloof, partly under the consciousness of this, 

 and partly under the dread of correction. This 

 is a delicate point: stand stock still; call him, 

 " Cato ! COME IN ! COME IN here !" On no 

 account run after him to catch him ; you will 

 ruin him for ever : you teach him to find out 

 that he has got four legs, and you have only 

 two ; a discovery which it is of some conse- 

 quence to you that he should never make : if 

 he shuffles, again call ; but in a tone not calcu- 

 lated to repel him : still keep your place ; stop 

 for an hour rather than spoil him: if he will 

 not come in without it, have recourse, as before 

 advised, to the last expedient of " sit down :" 

 in which position, if you are not previously con- 

 vinced of the necessity for some other means 

 of control than what you are likely to gain by 

 a race after him, I leave you at your leisure, 

 with due respect had to this duplicate ratio of 

 legs, to solve, by any scheme of figures you 

 are most familiar with, the difficult problem of 



