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tiently perhaps, waiting your deliberate com- 

 mand of his approach. It is, as I have hereto- 

 fore said, the hinge on which my whole system 

 turns. It is the great master-spring which, 

 as you will presently perceive, is to give you 

 a more extended direction of all his future 

 movements. 



Be this then the test of the pupil's first 

 admission into society. Show me a dog "per- 

 fect at the Down charge" and I will engage, in 

 a very few days, to exhibit him to you equally 

 firm at the challenge of "Take heed," to the 

 point of another dog; and with all that cautious 

 delicacy of approach, which constitutes good 

 manners in society. In the way that he has 

 been already fixed to his post, under the imme- 

 diate view of the game falling before him, and, 

 on his " advance to Seek dead," compelled fur- 

 ther to endure the flutter of the wounded bird 

 in its efforts to escape, without the permission 

 to seize, or even approach it with violence, 

 his nerves have been put to a much severer 

 trial than any we have now to make of his 

 endurance: and if a little giddiness at first, 

 arising from the novelty of his situation, or the 

 excitement of jealousy, combining with an 

 eagerness to have the game in his nose, should 

 for a moment drive the great rule of " Take 



