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familiar to them, and respected. If a young dog 

 makes a mistake in the flock or poultry-yard, the whip 

 will cure him ; but if an old one takes to such practices, 

 to the gallows with him ! he is never to be trusted.* 

 Every sportsman, we presume, will understand the 

 advantage of giving a young dog the wind, against 

 which he should take his range, making regular tacks, 

 like a vessel beating up to windward. If he stretches 

 too far to the one hand, a whistle, a wave, and 

 inclination of the body in another direction should 

 bring him about. In this manner continue to work 

 him till you see him on the haunt of game ; then 

 caution him by have a care take heed ! as he is fixing 

 to his point, and fix him with a stern, authoritative 

 down ! Keep him to his point, and if the birds lie, 

 make a circuit round them, keeping your eye strictly 

 upon the dog, checking every attempt to move with 

 the uplifted hand and down! When you see him 

 reconciled to lie close, give the word, hold up ! to your 

 birds. If he is diffident, pat and encourage him with 

 kind words ; if too forward, check him. When the 

 birds spring, should he pursue them, ware chase / 

 must be thundered in his ears, which may perhaps 

 stop him ; if not, have patience, keep your station, 

 and he will return after his rioting is over. Beware 

 of severity now, lest you check him ; but lead him 

 again to the haunt of the birds, and there lecture him 

 take heed, sir / down / At this stage of the business 

 a check-cord, a few yards in length, may be of advan- 



* The following specimen of the "tender mercies" of a 

 reverend sportsman may amuse, if not instruct. "To break a 

 sheep-biting dog, take some wool off a sheep's rump, steep it in 

 train oil, put it in the dog's jaws, and sew up his mouth. For 

 killing poultry, boil a chicken in its feathers, take it hot from 

 the boiler, squeeze the water from it, and put it into his jaw?, ind 

 tie them together" DANIEL, iii. p. 337. 



