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tor he has inherited a love for the water. Prac- 

 tically all Airedales will swim naturally without 

 any training at all, but once in a while there comes 

 along one who does not take to water. He should 

 be coaxed in, not taken by the scruff of the neck 

 and pitched overboard. Methods like that are 

 not generally successful when dogs are concerned. 



In hunting and swimming the Airedale is but 

 following the strongest instincts that he has. All 

 one has to do is to curb and direct these instincts. 

 Experience will do the rest, for the dog has brains 

 and is very quick to learn, and the teacher is 

 proverbially a good one. In driving cattle and 

 sheep, however, the dog is going into a new trade, 

 as it were, and not one to which he was born. 

 He proves his versatility by the quickness with 

 which he can learn to be an excellent drover. 

 The easiest way is to take him out with a dog 

 experienced in this work. If this cannot be done, 

 one will have to train him himself, and this is 

 not so difficult as it sounds, but it is best to make 

 sure that the dog has carefully learned that mind- 

 ing trick above mentioned before undertaking this. 



Almost any and all dogs are watch-dogs, but 

 the Airedale, because of his size and intelligence, 

 is a particularly good one. It is not the wisest 

 policy to chain up a dog at night, for he will be 

 much more apt to sound false alarms, and in any, 



