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heed" out of his head, a lesson or two from the 

 whip will assuredly recall him to a sense of 

 obedience, and make him understand the respect 

 he is required to pay to the point of another 

 dog; which his own sagacity, a much stronger 

 security than that of the whip, will very soon 

 teach him the meaning of, to the infinite improve- 

 ment and rapid unfolding of his faculties, in a 

 way which no solitary hunt can ever equally 

 confer. When a clean and full impression of 

 such meaning, independent of his own instinc- 

 tive feelings, or of the insipid habits of imitation, 

 shall have laid the firm foundation of self- 

 government, I consider all the difficulties of 

 perfect education as surmounted : you have in 

 in your hand a clue wherewithal to turn and 

 wind him as you please. 



We come now, after a preface of somewhat 

 more length than I could have wished, but 

 which, as tending to remove impediments, I 

 hope the reader will not think without its use, 

 to the business of bringing the pupil to join the 

 ranks, with an immediate view of his being 

 further brigaded in the field. It is scarcely 

 necessary to say, that his first introduction be 

 limited to a single individual ; and it would be 

 a mere solecism to stipulate, that such indi- 

 vidual be himself most perfect in the point 



