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a pet lamb, but the delicate hand would very likely 

 shew marks in evidence of certain powers of very 

 sore assault. The hare is naturally afraid of the dog, 

 and is, of course, no match for a hound; but put her 

 and a pet spaniel together in a box, or small room, 

 if the love pet began taking liberties, I am not sure 

 but he would be deterred from repeating them, when 

 both were confined. I will venture a hope that what I 

 have said, may in some way tend to soften the charge 

 of cruelty in hunting any wild animal ; and that 

 where, or when, any cruelty is occasioned by it, it 

 is not in the mere act of the chasing, but in the way 

 it is carried out, and that not as regards the animals 

 chased, but those employed in the chasing them. 



Hounds are often treated most cruelly, and pun- 

 ished most unmercifully, and, what is worse, very 

 frequently most unjustly. So far as the actual chas- 

 tisement of them goes, the huntsman is innocent, for 

 he never does, or at least never ought to, flog a hound. 

 This, when called for, is the business of the whips, or, 

 in less technical phrase, the whippers-in. In some 

 particulars we are now more enlightened than we 



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