have his confidence and have him interested in bird work and there 

 is then no fear of his not going after the birds. When he will do 

 this, you are ready to go into the field with him. Work him several 

 days in the field without shooting a gun. You will soon see that he 

 will get interested in the live birds. Be. sure and kill a bird when you 

 shoot, so that he can go and retrieve it for you. You will soon see 

 how easy it is to break him by my system. It is a great waste of 

 time and bad for the dog to start him, as so many do, by shooting 

 revolvers in the air, simply that the dog may hear the sound of the 

 gun. There is no sense in that. 



While breaking a dog under my system of retrieving, using the 

 rules found in my book, which accompanies the training device, no 

 time will be lost, and the dog will advance rapidly and surely. 



TWO MONTHS OLD SETTER. 



The illustration of a two and a half-month-old full blooded setter 

 pup, broken by the use of my training device, and which is seen 

 retrieving a prairie chicken, shows the pup handling himself on game 

 in the field like an old dog with a life experience on game. Commence 

 with a dog young, give him a show% and see how quickly he learns. 



Many, when working a dog in the field, grow careless about the 

 position in which to hold the gun when shooting over a point, and so 

 the need is felt of showing how to hold it to avoid all danger of acci- 

 dents. The dog is on point and in this case the field is open. In 

 shooting over a point in the brush or corn field, carry the gun high, 

 as it is easier to handle and there will be no danger of it hitting 

 anything. All accidents happen by holding the gun down low. Either 



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