other use for your whip, than to flog them in 

 when the bird falls. 



NEVER send him out with our friend WULLY *, 

 under the idea of having more game killed to 

 him than you may have time or skill to do, nor 

 for the purpose of bringing more of it home. 

 I have great respect for his docility and atten- 

 tion ; but he would never understand these 

 cautions, delivered to him at second-hand. My 



at the time. After having been made up in a secluded 

 stable, as he is brought into the circle of the school to receive 

 his lesson, infinite care must be taken that every thing be in 

 a state of quietude. It is of no consequence how many 

 people are seated around, provided they do but keep their 

 seats : but if one of them only cross the circle, it is all over 

 for that lesson ; you can do nothing with the horse ; and you 

 must lead him back again into the stable for hours, perhaps 

 for the whole day. Now, although in point of intellect, 

 with submission to the gentlemen of the whip be it spoken, 

 the dog is an animal incalculably superior, yet let me inform 

 the breaker, who expects from his pupil a strict adherence to 

 duties, whilst his eye is continually solicited, and his atten- 

 tion disturbed, by the wantonings and wanderings of some 

 unbroken disorderly companion, whether upon four legs or 

 upon two, that he expects more than, at his age, he has any 

 fight to claim from him. 



* A young fellow of that country, who sometimes accom- 

 panied the author upon the moors in the necessary quality 

 of guide : an office which his own eager propensities rendered 

 him as willing as he was able to undertake. ED. 



