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does your pointer support yours ? You may say no 

 sensible man nor no gentleman is amused by a bear's 

 dancing. I allow that, but all people are not sensible 

 or gentlemen either ; the lower orders are amused by 

 it, so it answers my purpose and theirs, and the low 

 have as much right to be amused as the high, if 

 their amusement is not attended by more reprehen- 

 sible acts than the others : the truth is, you like 

 shooting, and do not see any amusement in bear 

 dancing. I don't say I am right in being cruel to 

 make my beast dance, but I am not more wrong 

 than you, in encouraging cruelty to make your dog 

 back:' 



It is natural to the pointer to hunt, consequently 

 so soon as one or a brace of birds have been shot, 

 it is as natural for him to start off in search of more ; 

 but it is not natural for him to " down charge," yet 

 he is flogged till he does do so ; the animal, from fear 

 and habit, gets to do this, but of course from no 

 other motive ; he would think it just as sensible a 

 demand to be required to stand on his hind legs, or 

 turn heels over head till his master had reloaded. 



