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the whiffling fool worse : and in this case, how- 

 ever unwillingly, we shall, I fear, be compelled 

 to class him along with the blinker of a very 

 different nature, the brute of perverse and selfish 

 character, yet snivelling disposition. A strange 

 mixture ! you will say ; but I rather think not 

 an uncommon one, even in animals of a superior 

 order, who are by no means deficient in faculties, 

 but of whom you can get no hold ; with whose 

 petted temper, somewhat injured perhaps by 

 unskilful early treatment, you are compelled to 

 be for ever on the watch ; whom the mistake of 

 a word will fix at your heel for the remainder 

 of the day, or set him uselessly dodging about 

 in the rear, and leering at every attempt to get 

 him again upon any thing like a liberal hunt ; 

 with whom, if at any time exciting hope, you 

 are continually on the very verge of disappoint- 

 ment; and who is calculated, in short, for no 

 one purpose but that of making eternal experi- 

 ments on your patience. For a dog of this 

 description I have less hesitation in prescribing 

 the only proper mode of treatment, and which 

 I would recommend as the only effectual cure 

 for both. I will give it in the precise words of 

 a medical friend of mine in the country; himself 

 a sportsman, and his dogs, as well as himself, 

 of no small eminence in the county where he 

 resides. My intimacy with him sufficiently 



