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and became one of the leading favourites with that 

 pack. 



To shew how careful masters should be, as regards 

 the tempers of men to whom they entrust dumb ani- 

 mals,' I will mention a short anecdote of John 

 Monk, once huntsman to Mr. Hanbury's pack. I 

 was looking at the hounds, when perceiving one 

 lame, Monk examined him to find the cause ; in 

 doing this the dog snapped at him, when, snatching 

 up his whip that lay on the ground, he struck the 

 hound on the head with the hammer end of it ; he 

 dropped as if shot. Monk was stooping with his face 

 directly from me ; the temptation was too great 

 to resist. I gave him a kick that sent him com- 

 pletely heels over head; he got up no little astonished, 

 but, being a good-natured fellow, he admitted I had 

 served him right. The hound was only stunned, 

 and on further examining we found a large black 

 thorn buried in the flesh ; this having been pressed in 

 the examination, I have no doubt produced such 

 intolerable pain, that the animal snapped at the hand 

 with all but involuntary impulse; as a friend of 



