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them to go in any direction if you work slowly 

 and quietly. Hurry excites them, and they 

 will rush shrieking in every direction except 

 the one you would have them go. Don't 

 allow any one to run them, for it will put them 

 back from one to three weeks and waste just 

 that amount of feed. This is a point upon 

 which positive and repeated demonstration 

 enables me to speak with special authority. 



One summer we had a yard of youngsters 

 almost ready for market, when a friend came 

 down to spend Sunday with us, bringing a 

 young fox terrier with her, to give him a 

 day's exercise in the country. Our own dogs 

 are taught to take their exercise in the woods, 

 but Mr. City Terrier evidently found it slow, 

 for during dinner there was a great clamor. 

 On a poultry and pet stock farm, if one animal 

 sounds the note of alarm, everything joins 

 in and there is a conglomeration of peafowl, 

 guinea-fowl, hens, ducks, geese, and dogs, 

 all shrieking in fright and in different keys. 



We laid down our knives and forks, looked 

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