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were not amiss to have it engraven on the 

 collar of the latter, with a view to their 

 mutual regulation in the field ; leaving to 

 the graceless boast of the mere headlong 

 slaughterman, with his savage gang of un- 

 managed bone-crackers, an undisputed 

 claim to the quocunque modo rem ! 



NEVER beat before your dog, nor let him lose 

 his time behind you. Neither permit him 

 to be off into the next field ; so as to place 

 a hedge or a hill between himself and the 

 possibility of your seeing what he is about 

 at all times. 



NEVER hunt a dog when tired down: it will 

 make him a dull sloven in his deportment, 

 and destroy the gallantry of his range. It 

 may further teach him a trick of trifling, 

 and of treating you, every now and then, 

 with an agreeable trot the whole length of 

 a ten or twelve acre piece, in order to 

 attend to one of his false points; which, 

 with jaded spirits, he may be tempted to 

 sink into by way of a rest. Many a good 

 point have I seen at a mouse, towards the 

 close of a hard day's hunt, and that from 

 dogs of fair character too. 

 G 



