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parably and formidably connected. Let me 

 observe here that, for this as well as other 

 notices of restraint, the keen crack of the 

 whip is to be accepted as an expressive 

 synonym. It conveys more intelligibly to 

 the pupil's ear, than can be done by the 

 feeble paraphrase of the most powerful 

 voice, what he has to expect for disobe- 

 dience. For which reason, if there were 

 no other, the thong should not be too light, 

 and the lash kept in smacking order. 



WARE CHASE ; the challenge for the crime com- 

 mitted ; to be vollied out upon the instant 

 with all the powers of voice which the 

 tutor is master of; and to the tune of which, 

 re-thundered in his ears, he must have this 

 vice, and every tendency towards it (there 

 is no other method), most effectually flogged 

 out of him. 



DOWN CHARGE; the word of command in- 

 stantly after fire; to which I do expect 

 from the pupil, in manner already defined, 

 (p. 37) his perfect and dutiful obedience : 

 whether the fire be to a point or not, I do 

 insist upon it: if he be ranging off at a 

 distance, and you have a casual shot, still 



