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has broken from you in open violation of every 

 form of authority so studiously presented to 

 him ; he is now a daring sinner : tug him there- 

 fore back to the spot whence the bird rose, in 

 form, as just alluded to, and let the amount of 

 his punishment be proportioned to his violence 

 committed on the game. 



We keep the bird alive, in idea, a little longer, 

 for the sake of again bringing him up after it. 

 Let him find; it is not yet dead; but assuredly 

 crippled beyond the risk of another spring : 

 your whip therefore in hand, keep him steady 

 with "TAKE HEED!" Deliberately, as before 

 ordered, stoop to grasp the bird : if he should 

 dare to dash, meet him with the keenest cut of 

 vengeance, and the fierce challenge of "DEAD! 

 WARE DEAD !" The bird, I perceive, is still 

 lively in your hand ; a slight blow or two of the 

 back of its head upon the but of your gun is 

 the shortest and easiest method of despatching 

 it ; do this, and then lay it on the ground ^ it 

 flutters for awhile violently, and perhaps bolts 

 a little: it is a severe trial of him this, but he 

 must be brought to endure it: be ready, there- 

 fore, with the sceptre of authority, to check the 

 slightest attempt to dash, and let the stern and 

 awful notes of "DEAD! WARE DEAD! WARE 



