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the A B c of their business, while old ones are up to 

 every kind of trick. 



I shall now give an engraving of an iron puzzle 

 and check collar, that will, at once, do more towards 

 dog-breaking than a whole treatise, which would be 

 redundant to those of my readers who are sports- 

 men, and set all the others asleep. I shall, however, 

 make one observation, which is, that a dog is far 

 more likely to become a first-rate one, by being made 

 a companion of, and corrected by rating and shaming 

 him, than by being kept entirely away from the 

 breaker, except to be taken to the field, and there 

 flogged for every fault he commits. I had a friend 

 in Dorsetshire, who was not only one of the best shots 

 that ever lived, but who had, perhaps, the very best 

 dogs in Europe, and I know this was his plan. 



[In the fourth edition, I observed that any one 

 who had been much in the west of England would 

 know who I meant ; but I now sincerely regret to 

 add that this gentleman died last summer. While 

 he lived, the public mention of his name might have 

 been thought a liberty ; but now that he is no more, 

 I feel it a duty a tribute due to his memory. The 

 sportsman alluded to was Bayles Wardell, Esq., who, 

 " take him for all in all," was one of the very best shoot- 

 ing sportsmen that ever went into a field ! To say of 

 any man that he was the best shot in England, would 

 be as bold an assertion as to say that there was any 

 man in England who could shoot better than Mr. 

 Wardell !] 



