676 AlANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 



stand the advantage of giving a young dog the wi.nd, against 

 which he should take his range, making regular tacks, like a 

 vessel beating up to windward. If he stretches too far, to 

 the one hand, a whistle, a wave, and inclination of the body 

 in another direction should bring him about. In this man- 

 ner continue to work him till you see him on the haunt of 

 game ; then caution him by have a care — take heed ! as he 

 is fixing to his point, and fix him with a stern, authoritative 

 doivn ! Keep him to his point, and if the birds lie, make a 

 circuit round them, keeping your eye strictly upon thp dog, 

 checking every attempt to move with the uplifted hand and 

 down ! When you see him reconciled to lie close, give the 

 word, hold up ! to your birds. If he is diffident, pat and 

 encourage him with kind words ; if too forward, check him. 

 When the birds spring, should he pursue them, wai^e chase ! 

 must be thundered in his ears, which may perhaps stop him ; 

 if not, have patience, keep your station, and he will return 

 after his rioting is over. Beware of severity now, lest you 

 check him ; but lead him again to the haunt of the birds, 

 and there lecture him — tahe heed, sw ! down! At this 

 stage of the business a check- cord, a few yards in length, 

 may be of advantage to prevent him from bolting in or 

 escaping under punishm.ent. When you have got him steady 

 to his point, you may proceed to down charge ! to which we 

 have supposed the pupil ready drilled ; nevertheless, when 

 a bird drops, he may break in, and this should be instantly 

 and invariably resisted with down charge! ware dead! 

 and the application of the whip when persisted in. 



We now come to the important act of bagging the birds 



sportman may amuse if not instruct.— " To break a sheep-biting dog, 

 take some wool off a slieep's rump, steep it in train oil, put it in the 

 flo<>;'s jaws, and sew up his mouth. For killing poultry, boil a chicken 

 in its feathers, take it hot from the boiler, squeeze the water from it, 

 and put it into hi? jaw^, ai d tie tlicm toycther.'" — Daniel, iii. \).odl . 



