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that your whip be no foolish buttonhole bauble: 

 let it be heavy enough to give an intelligible and 

 adequate translation of the sternest language 

 of command, or you are only making work for 

 yourself. 



I do not forget that you have a gun in your 

 hand ; but I have hitherto suspended its use, 

 in order that it might not interrupt our first 

 attention to the establishment of range: and 

 in order to preserve more distinct what, in my 

 want of acquaintance with the age, disposition, 

 and state of experience of your intended pupil, 

 I have just given as a sketch of treatment 

 during my preliminary introduction to game; 

 the adoption of which, or otherwise, must, with 

 a view to the above circumstances, be left with 

 the discretion of the tutor: again, requesting 

 to premise that, with the exception of having 

 his faculties thoroughly awakened, and being- 

 made eagerly alive to the sense of his proper 

 game; with an improvement of his instinctive 

 stop into an instant check of self-command at 

 the challenge of " Take heed !" I would, for a 

 variety of reasons, some of which have been 

 before hinted at, defer all attempt at working 

 up this stop into a confirmed point, until the 

 object of that point can be presented to him in 

 the game killed before him. For this purpose 



