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which we have just insisted on from the pupil ; 

 and hence we shall have occasion to infer a 

 necessity, which every gentleman who contem- 

 plates taking the field with more than a single 

 dog, will further find himself under, of creating 

 a school of example for himself; unless he shall 

 be enabled to find, which is not very likely, 

 some well-disciplined individual, not radically 

 injured by having been brought up in one of 

 the old schools, whom he can prevail upon 

 implicitly to adopt a new grammar upon this 

 our leading point; without which it is impos- 

 sible that our pupil and he can ever be in the 

 necessary state of intelligence with each other. 

 However perfect in every other respect, how- 

 ever stanch to the challenge of " Take heed," 

 either by himself or in company, if he be in the 

 habit of breaking the line to secure the fallen 

 bird, or if, even after the most respectful point, 

 at some distance, to the finding dog, he shall 

 come rattling in at the instant of shot, we can 

 not look to him as a pattern or as an associate, 

 where we have in view the establishment of 

 what will, for various reasons, be found a 

 superior system of manners. 



I wish here to observe, that in thus giving an 

 apparent preference to some steady veteran, 

 from whose manner, rendered sedate by age 



