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for the business of command, as to begin to 

 discipline his new-raised levies, by brigading 

 them together in the field? The idea is too 

 absurd to be entertained for a moment, but with 

 a sense of ridicule. Yet this, or something like 

 this, will, I am persuaded, be found to be the 

 conduct of every one of them, in leading forth 

 the young levies of his kennel for the diversion 

 of the ensuing season. The animal on two 

 legs, whom, in the cultivated use of reason and 

 speech, it is presumed he considers as possess- 

 ing some advantages over the other, he finds 

 it absolutely necessary to work through the 

 tedious business of the drill, in order to give 

 him some general knowledge of what will be 

 expected of him, before he puts him in a situa- 

 tion where he would otherwise only create con- 

 fusion. But without ceremony, and certainly 

 without reflection, he begins the training of his 

 four-legged troops, as though he thought them 

 the more rational animals of the two, by put- 

 ting them in a situation where nothing but a 

 thorough-paced knowledge of discipline can 

 render them available to any good purpose; or 

 warrant the call which it is his immediate busi- 

 ness, as their leader, to make on " every dog to do 

 his duty." The gentleman will tell me, perhaps, 

 that I am mis-stating the case ; that his young 

 dogs are not taken out with an idea of acquiring 



