Note 57 — Chapter XI

The force of the word “Dead” (preceding the command “Find”)—that joyous, exciting note of triumph—ought never to be lessened by being employed, as I have heard it, to stimulate a dog to hunt when no bird is down; or, like the shepherd-boy’s cry of “Wolf! wolf!” it will have little influence at the moment when it should most animate to unremitting exertions.