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proper way of working by stinging him with 

 shot once or twice when he was going on wrong. 

 He is now an excellent dog. I do not teach my 

 dogs to retrieve, but let them take it up of their 

 own accord from seeing my old dogs do it. 

 About half learn to retrieve in that way. They 

 could all be taught to do so easily enough. 



The most thorough dog-breaker I know is Miles 

 Johnson, of Yardville, New Jersey. He has a 

 capital place to keep dogs, and is a perfect master of 

 the art of breaking them, retrieving, and everything 

 else which may be thought desirable. I recently 

 saw at his place a liver and white setter which 

 he has broken to do almost anything. This is the 

 most perfectly-educated sporting dog I ever saw ; 

 and if gentlemen want their dogs educated in this 

 way, Johnson is the man to do it. 



My method is very serviceable, and includes 

 all that 1 deem essential, but many would want 

 more to be done with them. There is one thing 

 sportsmen should always persevere in, and that 

 is, making the dog perform what he undertakes 

 to make him do. I never lot a dog evade doing 

 what 1 have set out to make him do. Your dogs 

 must bo made to understand clearly that you are 

 the master, and that your will b to rule their in- 



