62 WITH BOAT AND GUN IN THE YANGTZE VALLEY. 



"I could recount many excellent lessons I received from Belt on every point connected 

 with dog-breaking, the development of the instincts of the dogs, keeping them in subjection 

 without cowing them. To come up to a whistle, to keep to heel, to drop to hand or shot, 

 were the essentials. All the rest Belt affirmed came from observation, encouragement and 

 experience. Certainly I never saw dogs that excelled those broken by Belt in the ordinary 

 or extraordinary qualities of a pointer. They took the wind, they quartered the ground, 

 they backed, they stood, they dropped to shot and sometimes a very old and wise one was 

 allowed to retrieve — a young one never!" 



