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it; because I have to call upon you, in justice 

 to him, to raise your arm in vengeance, to shut 

 up every avenue of mercy in your bosom, and 

 let your whip, to the fierce challenge of " WARE 

 BIRD ! WARE DEAD !" as it lies despoiled before 

 him, tear him to pieces. We can not help it, 

 Sir : he has tasted blood ; and the thirst for 

 blood must be extinguished on the instant, or 

 he is undone for ever : there is no alternative, 

 but a halter; unless it be your purpose to 

 become the associate and accomplice of a foul- 

 mouthed, furious, bloody-minded ruffian, and 

 prowl about a country, to feed the hawks with 

 his offal, or hang them up in rags for scare- 

 crows. 



Well! but he did not sieze: he paused, he 

 stopped to the united efforts of your voice and 

 whip, and there he stands : now, here is a case 

 of some delicacy: if he has actually found 

 after the flutter, and if he be fairly on point 

 with the game in his nose, you must not lead 

 him back from it on any account, lest you lay the 

 foundation of blinking, one of the worst of all 

 defects : but if he be only on stop to your call, 

 provided you can contrive to come up with him 

 before he has actually found, you must, notwith- 

 standing this tendency to obedience, lead him 



