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intelligence into that quarter, where this prac- 

 tice will soon teach him he can alone rationally 

 look for it; and to this conduct of himself, with 

 a perpetual view to regular beat, it is here more 

 immediately necessary that he should be atten-^ 

 tively held up by the tutor. If the latter should 

 here object to me the insurmountable toil of 

 such attempt upon ground like this, I have only 

 to answer, " Then let him keep the pupil out 

 of it;" unless it be his purpose to relinquish all 

 claims to the superior distinctions and advan- 

 tages of regulated range : in which case, I have 

 nothing more to say ; and have only to lament 

 in silence that it is not in my power to elevate 

 his taste, and that so considerable a part of this 

 little volume should be so totally lost, as it will 

 be, upon him. 



Without some such skilful carriage of him- 

 self, previously and firmly established, a dog 

 will never clear his ground before him, nor get 

 on in his day's work : he may slave away for 

 hours in a handsome piece of turnips, or a good 

 plot of potatoes, with no superior meaning, and 

 little more effect, than would be produced by 

 the ferretings of a good terrier ; and his action 

 will degenerate into a giddy undefined ramble, 

 interrupted now and then by shadows of hunt, 

 which stop him for a moment, but which he has 



