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for having unconsciously done wrong, or what is held 

 as wrong. The flogging is injustice and barbarity ; the 

 dog had no intention of ofFending,^consequently (let 

 ignorance and obstinacy say what they may) he 

 had no means of judging of what he was flogged 

 for. No one can be absurd enough to suppose that 

 a pointer points in order to show his master that 

 game is at hand ; from some instinctive impulse, the 

 pointer and setter often stop naturally, on winding 

 game ; the hound, on such occasions, rushes on with 

 greater glee ^and impetus ; each has his mode of 

 getting at his game ; and that to kill and eat it is 

 the animal impulse of both, I conceive admits not of 

 a doubt. It may be said, and truly, that a foxhound 

 only eats a fox when the former is in a state of 

 excitement ; this is doubtless the case, and merely 

 shews that fox is not the game that in a state of 

 nature he would pursue. The foxhound is an arti- 

 ficial animal, we teach him to hunt foxes for our 

 own gratification, and flog him for pursuing such 

 game as nature directs him to kill ; the cause of the 

 pointer stopping on scenting his game, is some 



