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you show the youngsters the gun, how delighted they will 

 be to join you in your tramps, and also how pleased they 

 are to smell powder. 



As regards breaking, my method is the same as most all 

 sportsmen use, and I will not enter into it for fear of tiring 

 my readers. I will simply say, if you wish to break your 

 own dog, buy "Modern Training, Handling, and Kennel 

 Management," by B. Waters. 



My advice to young sportsmen is to get a first-class 

 trainer to break their dogs, if they can afford it; and when 

 he is nearly finished, request the trainer to give them a 

 week's instruction on how to work the dogs after they are 

 broken. 



The Gordon Setter I have always found to be one of the 

 hardiest, and if well housed arid fed, they seldom require 

 medicine. I hardly know what distemper is with them, 

 for I have not had a puppy or grown dog afflicted with it 

 for over twelve years, and then it was contracted by coming- 

 in contact with a road dog, while exercising. My bitch 

 June lived until she was thirteen and one-half years old; 

 Malcolm died at eleven and one-half, from inflammation of 

 the bowels caused by swallowing a bone. A few months 

 before he died, I hunted him for several days, and his nose 

 was as fine, and his speed and endurance were just as good, 

 as when he was five years old. The Gordon Setter is game 

 in all his work. He is willing to face the stoutest briers, 

 or retrieve his game even if he has to go through a skim of 

 ice. Many a bird have they brought me that fell on the 

 opposite side of a stout stream, in mid-winter, and they did 

 it with as much determination as they showed in retrieving 

 woodcock in summer. 



When starting out for a two-weeks trip, take with you 

 about seventy-five pounds of corn-meal and twenty pounds 

 of beef flour. This will be all you require to feed a 

 brace or two on during your stay. Take of the corn-meal 

 five pounds, and a tea-cup of the beef flour; mix well before 

 you wet the meal; then wet and mix and have baked nicely 

 in bread-pans; feed it cold. In the morning, feed lightly; 



