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their dogs; which, generally speaking, are an 

 ugly, raw-boned, cross-made derivation from 

 the light setter, degraded through half a dozen 

 generations of bastardy; than which, with a 

 view of being made up into pointers, it is not 

 possible to conceive more unpromising mate- 

 rials ; and upon which therefore, if such be the 

 effects producible, it is fair to conclude what 

 a similar discipline is capable of doing with 

 superior natures. By hunger and hard work, 

 of both of which they get plenty, they are 

 brought down into obedience ; and their draw 

 upon a cock in a wood, under the dread of 

 their master's arm, with the power of which 

 they soon become acquainted, is wrought into 

 a full stop. Now Let us turn our eye from the 

 dog, to observe the conduct of the master. As 

 soon as the former is clearly fixed, instead of 

 pressing on him, or scaring all the cocks in a 

 wood by his noisy admonitions, the latter 

 retires in silence instantly: he is little solici- 

 tous about the conduct of his companion, who 

 by this time has learned at what a terrible price 

 his sides must pay for it, if, with the full con- 

 sciousness of the bird before him, he should 

 press forward to a spring. Having got off to 

 as great a distance as the wood will conveniently 

 admit, perhaps twenty or thirty yards, the master 

 now unslings the stalk in^horse, which had been 



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