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advancing his own knowledge, and of highly 

 increasing his importance and his usefulness. 



Let not any man deceive himself: game- 

 killing and dog-breaking are more than one 

 man's business ; and whoso taketh the field, in 



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a craving struggle to reconcile the two charac- 

 ters, may rest assured that he can not take a 

 more effectual method to disappoint himself in 

 both. A gentleman should examine his pulse, 

 therefore, when he is about to set off in a morn- 

 ing ; and if he perceive that he is in want of 

 game, let him carefully turn the key upon any 

 young dog, in whose horoscope he may have 

 cause to read superior destinies. He will make 

 a surer progress in his learning by his private 

 meditations at home, than by a premature 

 admission where he will incur the risk of pick- 

 ing up what will render necessary the additional, 

 and generally more difficult, task of unlearning 

 hereafter. Instruction is not the same in our 

 business as it is in the case of some other young 

 animals ; where the negative example, if skil- 

 fully managed, is frequently of more conse- 

 quence to the formation of morals, than the 

 most perfect presentment of positive virtues. 

 The former can not for one moment be witnessed 

 by our pupil, without leaving an impression of 



