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must take them all or none. It is a system of 

 that nature, which does not admit of communion 

 with error or w r ith vice: and remember I am 

 not answerable, if you spoil a good dog by any 

 compromise with either. 



On the subject of hunting in company, and 

 a mutual distribution of regulated beat, together 

 with all the handsome figure-work of backing 

 to point, I say nothing ; because it does not 

 apply to you. One good dog is more than it 

 falls to the lot of most men to know how to 

 manage, and full as much as, with your better 

 engagements, you are ever likely to create ; 

 and again, remember I bar all associations, even 

 for an hour, such as you are likely to meet with. 

 Believe me, Sir, a whole season of private dis- 

 cipline is quite little enough to make your pupil 

 fit to appear with credit to you, or even with all 

 due advantage to himself, in good company: 

 to which, as the means as well as the end of 

 perfecting education, we are in this, as well as 

 in other cases, finally to look ; and I may there- 

 fore possibly resume this part of the subject 

 hereafter. But our immediate business is to 

 make him find his own faculties first : and with 

 a thorough command established over him, 

 under the head of Down charge, as above, he 



