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mine once, while undergoing the probing a tender 

 tooth, gave the operator such a blow under the chin 

 as sent him reeling back against the opposite wall. 

 Monk was a good-tempered man, and the hound as 

 well-tempered a dog : they both erred from impulse 

 — the one from pain, the other passion. 



No man would be a greater martinet than myself 

 in the field, if I was master of a pack of hounds. 

 I should be most strict as to the performance of 

 duty as regarded men, horses, and hounds ; but 

 a man may be this, and yet not only be humane, 

 kind, and indulgent, but beloved by all. I 

 hold hunting of all sorts, but, above all, foxhunting, 

 to be most beneficial to the locality where it is 

 carried on ; a healthful, manly, gentlemanly pur- 

 suit, to those engaging in it, and one in the carrying 

 on of which I should spare neither trouble nor 

 money. Still I cannot but feel quite convinced, 

 that on all principle, moral and divine, and in duty 

 to our own conscience, we have no right in doing 

 anything that it is not vitally necessary to do ; to do it, 

 at the expense of suffering to man, horse, or hound ; 



