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NEVER permit a race after a hare: therefore 

 on no account whatever be tempted to 

 begin this race by firing at one. I can not 

 admit this into my system, because, if ever 

 your dog finds his legs in such a race, you 

 will more than undo all the powers of 

 command which you have been working 

 for months to acquire. Fortunately for 

 your arms and his sides, you are not very 

 likely to incur the temptation. It is with 

 a direct view to this circumstance, were 

 there no superior reasons, that for the 

 business of education I should give a pre- 

 ference to the moors ; where the pupil is 

 not exposed to have his yet undisciplined 

 feelings excited into disobedience, as he is 

 in countries where these vermin abound. 



LAST of all, though not least, as applying more 

 immediately to yourself than to your dog, 

 and by way of corollary to the decalogue, 

 I shall pick a line out of Horace, and put 

 it into his mouth> with the alteration of one 

 syllable only, for your instruction. 



-- Si vis me cavejre, eavejodum. est 

 Priraum ipsi tibi. 



