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be my endeavour to leave as little imperfect as 

 may be. 



Upon this principle, and with a direct view to 

 the furtherance of our purpose, and the readier 

 advancement of knowledge, I have now to 

 notice one very general, but very important, 

 error in the business of breaking, which impedes 

 instruction sadly : the tutor is never sufficiently 

 careful of his own language; that is, to express 

 uniformly by the same word the precise idea 

 which it is his intention to convey: he is betrayed 

 into this by laziness or by passion, and he puz- 

 zles, instead of instructing his pupil. It would 

 be a waste of argument to insist on the neces- 

 sity of precision upon this point; and I shall 

 make no apology, therefore, for submitting to 

 his acceptance the subsequent arrangement, in 

 the form of a Vocabulary. 



To the sportsman whose tongue is already 

 familiar with a different phraseology, I am not 

 offering this, in order to give him the trouble of 

 subverting his habits. Different dialects will 

 obtain in different counties*, and a man very 



* For instance : whether the fixed arrest on point is con- 

 veyed by take heed! to ho! yoho! &c. is a matter of indif- 

 ference: but I must decisively object to the unnecessary 



