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an explanation is given of the diagram on quar- 

 tering, I have sought the opportunity of making 

 an acknowledgment, which I conceived to be 

 due to an author, from whom my first hints for 

 a rational management of the dog had been 

 originally derived. Amongst a variety of col- 

 lateral matter, he does not forget to take the 

 young shooter himself under his correction. 

 It is from the two last pages of this little volume 

 that I present the following extract. The reader 

 will not fail to be amused with the manner; 

 and I wish him to believe, that for the matter 

 it is still more deserving his attention, from the 

 valuable truths which lie folded up within it. 



" That an over-desire to kill is the very means 

 to prevent it, experience laments, but can not, 

 in the common method, correct it. A man 

 readily admits the improbability, but fondly 

 insists on possibility ; and so fires away in 

 hopes. Let the young sportsman, therefore, 

 set forth with every appendage but (what he 

 thinks hard should be left behind) powder and 

 shot : a stiff piece of sole-leather may represent 

 the flint, to spare the face of the hammer. 

 When a bird gets up, he is certain he can not 

 kill it; therefore he can wait to any length, 

 until he gets it at the end of his gun : he must 



