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by your clamorous endeavours to restrain the 

 unlicensed encroachment of the other ; or from 

 setting off upon fresh hunt; or from the pro- 

 bable attempt of getting off at some distance 

 to stare at what is going on with his friend, not 

 without some very allowable apprehensions of 

 his coming in, though he knows not why, for a 

 taste of whipcord himself; all which circum- 

 stances, as tending to withdraw a dog from a 

 constant sense of authority, more especially 

 the latter, must be cautiously guarded against : 

 add to which, a consideration that this permis- 

 sion to be trifling about, will very much diminish 

 the solemnity, and take off from the effect of 

 the new lesson which you are, in fact, reading 

 to them both. Now, with the better aid of 

 some cool and steady veteran, by long expe- 

 rience sobered down into a state of quietude at 

 heel, during these first struggles to keep a young 

 dog from breaking the line, the attendance of 

 such assistant will become unnecessary. But 

 as there are very few pointers, however perfect 

 in discipline, who will be prevailed on to stand 

 by, and listen in patience to your long preach- 

 ments, which may be all very necessary for the 

 young one's edification, but for which, with an 

 eye to the mode of your explaining and enforcing 

 some of your arguments, they may have no 

 great relish; and as they may therefore be 



