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make their way to knowledge. The pupil of 

 this school, exclusive of being taken out before 

 the season along with some steady old stager 

 of the kennel, under cover of whose frequent 

 finds he may be brought acquainted with his 

 game 5 which is all vastly well as far as it 

 goes, and so long as it is not permitted to go 

 too far, by tying him up eventually at the tail 

 of the old dog (although, for reasons hereto- 

 fore given, I do not make much account of 

 this unexplained preface to real business), after 

 the arrival of the day when, from the fall of the 

 game at the animating report of the gun, he 

 might be enabled to make some guess at the 

 reason why he has been held in restraint at the 

 shoulder of the old dog, instead of being suf- 

 fered to rattle on to the enjoyment of the scent 

 which he has so often been cheered up to, is 

 no longer permitted the fair use of his own 

 faculties, lest he should disturb, with the sallies 

 of his ignorance, the manoeuvres of a superior 

 or two, who from their standing and acquire- 

 ments are entitled to the lead : the business of 

 the day can not be given up to him : every effort 

 to make one among them is quelled on the 

 instant : he is not even allowed to be too fami- 

 liar in his approaches to his old friend ; and he 

 very early begins to find oat that his only chance 

 of coming at the enjoyment of what his every 

 nerve has been made more eagerly alive to, by 



