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the matter, and in hope of putting in a word in favour 

 of the culprit : there was Oldaker and his two whips, 

 with a hound in one of the yards ; each lashed him 

 as he came within reach of him, calling out the 

 name of the dog at each stroke. On my entering, 

 they stopped, and old Tom certainly looked very 

 black, and I thought a little ashamed of what I caught 

 him at ; and well he might : in the first place a hunts- 

 man should be beloved by his hounds, consequently 

 a rate, or smack of his whip in token of his anger, or 

 at most a stroke of it, if he catches a hound in the 

 immediate committal of a fault, is the most he should 

 do. It is true there was but this one unfortunate 

 animal in the yard, but it was only divided from the 

 rest by palisades, so the whole pack were alarmed by 

 what was going forward ; I learned that the fault of 

 the hound was one very common to man, perhaps 

 sometimes even to the inflicters of the brutal act (for it 

 was a brutal flogging) — this was making too free with 

 his tongue. The next fault was, he would, if out of 

 sight, pay no heed to a rate. So the principle they went 

 on was, that by calling out his name, and accompany- 



