290 MODERN TRAINING. 



It will conduce to your friend's peace of mind. If he 

 requests you to unload, take offence. You are perfectly 

 competent to handle a loaded gun, even if the horses should 

 run away, the wagon upset, or break down, etc. 



Blow your whistle and give loud orders continually. Keep 

 the dog going to every likely place but the place he is in. 

 Have five or six places that you desire him to work in at the 

 same time. Claim, with great show of firmness, all the birds 

 you can. If your friend's dog points when you are a 

 quarter of a mile away, call loudly to your friend asking 

 him to wait. It will be a great pleasure to wait, and make 

 the pleasure divided a pleasure doubled. 



When you walk up to your friend's dog which is on a 

 point or back, never under any circumstances fail to have 

 your gun, with your fingers on the triggers, pointed down- 

 ward toward the dog, and as you walk around him, keep the 

 gun bearing on him. In the few known instances in which 

 the gun discharged prematurely, the dog was killed outright, 

 hence there is no doubt of the effectiveness of the method. 



If your friend has one day only in which to hunt, by all 

 means try to make it entertaining. Narrate some long- 

 winded yarns of what you have done on some previous 

 occasion. Become intensely absorbed in the narration, 

 stop your friend so that he can listen better, and let the dogs 

 go on. Your friend can have no greater delight than in 

 devoting three-quarters of his time to listening to some 

 gross, highly-colored, apocryphal stories of self-glorifi- 

 cation. 



If the dog is on a point or back, be sure to walk straight 

 over him as you go forward to flush the birds. There is 

 unlimited space between a pointing dog and the horizon, 

 but there might be some time lost if you deviate a finger 

 breadth from a right line. The writer has seen this done 

 with great nicety many times, much to the credit of the per- 



