treed. He will keep barking or howling and so attract the squirrel's 

 attention and give you a chance to approach the tree without the 

 squirrel seeing you. Go as slowly as you can walk and keep about 

 ten to twenty feet away, making very little noise. You will soon see 

 the squirrel by watching the limbs move and so locate him ; he will 

 move from side to side and Nvill be easy to hit. 



To teach a dog to be a good squirrel dog, take him out about the 

 first of May, while the squirrels are small, as then, you will find them 

 playing about little trees or saplings, that a little boy can climb up and 

 bend over. On these they learn to jump and climb before they under- 

 take to be active on large trees. When you have found a squirrel, move 

 along with your dog and show him where the squirrel is. The best 

 thing to do is to climb the tree and shake the squirrel off ; this is easy 

 to do as the tree will be small. When he falls on the ground he wall 

 get up and run to another tree and your dog at first will only bark and 

 not offer to touch the squirrel. After a few lessons in this way he will 

 go out by himself and hunt in heavy cover and open woods and just 

 as soon as he strikes a scent he will bark for you to come to him, as he 

 wall have the squirrel treed. With a good dog you will be able to get 

 squirrels wdienever you go out hunting. Without a dog, they are hard 

 to get. You can take almost any kind of a dog and make a good 

 squirrel dog out of him if you teach him in this way. 



I always have my dogs retrieve them the same as they do birds or 

 rabbits, as they think it more sport to hunt them if they know they will 

 get the game in their mouths, as this is their pride and glory. 



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