They understood men just as they understood the horses and hounds under their charge.

Every mood and vicious indication in those animals was known to them, and so, too, with their masters.
Felix thought that he was himself a hunter, and understood woodcraft; he now found how mistaken he had been.

He had acquired woodcraft as a gentleman; he now learned the knave's woodcraft.

They taught him a hundred tricks of which he had had no idea.

They stripped man of his dignity, and nature of her refinement.