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rage their hurrying. Never mind if they flush one bevy, and 

 you lose one shot. Be steady, and punish, so that they will not 

 do so again. 



Wlien they point, flush your own bird, even if you get a worse 

 shot at it than you would do by hieing on your dog. To do so 

 will make him heedless and headstrong. 



If you kill, stand still, cry " dov/n-charge," and load your 

 gun. If the dogs run in, don't run after them, it will only make 

 them run the faster. Stand still, and cry " down," till you have 

 done loading. Then go on deliberately, never heed the dead 

 bird, which is probably half eaten by this time, but drag the 

 offender back to the place whence he started, crying " down- 

 charge," and lashing him all the way, — then hold him down, and 

 flog him most severely. Make him lie still, without stin'ing, till you 

 have brought the bird, and laid it close under his nose. Then 

 make him pick it up, and give it you, — he will not run in many 

 times, if so dealt withal. 



Break your dogs thus, or have them thus broken, and when 

 they are broken, handle them thus in the kennel, and in the 

 field, and my word on it, they will be, and continue good ones. 



END OF VOLUME ONE. 



