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not, as a sportsman, in some measure acquainted : 

 it is in the precision of their application alone 

 that you will find any thing of novelty ; and in 

 this respect I must rely upon a previous docility 

 on your part, most attentively, to break in your- 

 self. Its further amplification, as may be called 

 for by circumstances, must be produced by the 

 varying tones and sudden breaks of the voice; 

 an extension of language which will be wonder- 

 fully well understood by the dog. For which 

 purpose a variety of little trains of subsidiary 

 words, or colloquial expletives, may be occa- 

 sionally called in: such as Good dog; good 

 boy, &c. ; or, to be set in the opposite key, Will 

 you then? How dare you? Ah, you brute! 

 &c. : but as they do not refer to specific duties, 

 and may be considered only as the vehicles of 

 these tones or breaks by which the various 

 degrees of approbation or of reproof are to be 

 conveyed, I have not admitted them in form, 

 from a disinclination thus indefinitely to encum- 

 ber my vocabulary. 



Of the whole of this class of words, however, 

 1 would recommend to the tutor to be as sparing 

 as possible; and that they be not permitted to 

 obtrude themselves so conspicuously upon the 

 ear, as to rob the direct word of command of 

 the strong and marking emphasis which is due 



