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and experience, the youthful pupil may derive 

 many useful hints, I am by no means recur- 

 ring to the motives which render a companion 

 of this description indispensable in the com- 

 mon mode of what is accepted for education. 

 It is extremely desirable, no doubt, for the 

 pupil to have such example immediately before 

 his eyes, by an appeal to whose stanch and 

 steady conduct he will be more directly taught, 

 as he will more explicitly comprehend, his 

 new duties ; but it is to me no further desir- 

 able, than as having to rely on a companion 

 who will hold his point firm and unshaken, by 

 whatever measures may become necessary to 

 impress upon the pupil a thorough sense of 

 these duties. I should fall as soon, abating 

 somewhat for the consideration of having two 

 irons in the fire, expect to succeed in establish- 

 ing a perfect sense of social order, by bringing 

 together a couple of recruits, provided they 

 were both equally perfect at the point insisted 

 on. The only difference with me is, that in 

 this case an assistant in the field will be wanted 

 by the tutor, in order that, during the adminis- 

 tration of discipline which, just at first, will of 

 necessity be called for, to fix attention on the 

 finding dog, the latter may be secured from 

 working on the foil of the game, which of 

 course has been sprung, or put upon the run 



