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probabilities of that fate; as I advise all my readers to 
do, under the like circumstances. 
Before I have done with this part of my subject, in 
order to avoid being misunderstood, I will add, that when 
correction is needed, it should be given, in kindness to the 
sufferer, in earnest, and once for all; so that he shall 
remember the infliction, and need no repetition. One 
sound flagellation, when really deserved, will do twenty 
times the good, morally, and not inflict half the suffering, 
physically, of twenty, or twenty times twenty, insufficient, 
teasing corrections, which keep the dog in constant agita- 
tion and irritation, without making him once really care 
about it, or remember it. 
A dog, when he has once learned what a whipping is, 
will be sufficiently warned by the mere sight of the 
instrument of flagellation, shown menacingly, with a word 
or two of objurgation. The menace must not, however, 
be repeated im vain, or it will bea short time only ere 
it lose its effect, from the offender perceiving that no exe- 
cution follows. 
In such cases, with old knowing dogs, who are as much 
aware as their master that they are doing wrong, if they 
neglect warning and take no heed of threats, two or three 
smart cuts, with a long rating, is as good in its effect as 
half an hour’s flagellation, Where the offence is very 
grave, such as rushing in on a fallen bird, breaking point 
from jealousy of another dog, chasing violently heedless 
of the call, paying no attention to the call or whistle, 
refusing to come to heel or down charge; where the fault 
evidently arises from wilfulness, and not from accident or 
