492 LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



Continue to drop the object you are utilising 

 now here, now there, always waving the right arm 

 when you urge the puppy to seek it, as if you were 

 bowling a slow underhand ball at cricket or throwing 

 a quoit. When your puppy does not see the pigeon or 

 ball falling through the air, as he will at first expect to 

 see it from the movement of your arm, and as he has 

 previously been accustomed to see it, he will, after a 

 short time, merely consider the jerk of your arm as 

 a direction encouraging him to seek for the object, 

 and as a useful hint concerning its position on the 

 ground. 



When this occurs you have taught the puppy it-hat 

 and where to seek by merely waving your arm, a 

 quiet signal for him to obey that will be most useful 

 later on in the shooting field. 



LESSON Y 



' SEEK AND FIND BY SCENT ' 



We cannot hurry over these instructions, they 

 require patience and time. Perfect your puppy in all 

 I tell you, before you proceed from one lesson to 

 another. The next thing to teach your puppy is to 

 seek and find by means of scent ; he now does this to 

 some extent, but we want to train him to do so enturli/, 

 and to discontinue any finding by ' sight,' for, if a dog 

 can see a bird fall dead in the open and pick it up, 

 why, his master can generally do so too ! 



