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way ; again makes an effort to rise, but can not 

 keep on wing : this is a hard trial of our pupil : 

 he is after it; stop him, if it be possible, with 

 the united volley of " WARE CHASE! WARE 

 DEAD !" and the keen crack of admonition from 

 your whip. I can not permit you to run after 

 him, while there remains one possibility of his 

 recovering his recollection, or of his stopping 

 to your threats ; because it is a pledge of your 

 future command over him : but if nothing 

 will do, and he should actually seize, to him 

 instantly ! but recollect your gun was cocked 

 as the bird sprang ; secure, or leave it ; other- 

 wise a stumble may cost you or your dog a 

 limb*. And now drag him back, with every 

 mark of your displeasure, in the precise form 

 already prescribed at page 38, to the place of 

 this second find, where the bird rose beneath 

 your hand : here pin him down, with his nose 

 on the very spot, and give him such a dressing, 

 as may be a lasting memorial of what you here- 

 after expect from him : then, without suffering 



* Let not this caution be deemed obtrusive or superfluous. 

 A part of my purpose has all along been to break in the 

 breaker; I have, therefore, occasionally interspersed some 

 checks of this nature, from a thorough conviction of the 

 necessity of such hints, and of the importance of establish- 

 ing habits which supersede the dangers arising from heedless 

 dashing. 



