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One thing I always insist on, when in hcatli 

 or fiirzo I can't see the shot that is made, and that 

 is, that while the setters are down to the discharge 

 of tlie gun, tlie shooter shall tell me if ho lias 

 womided or missed. If missed, I don't tell my 

 dogs to ''seek dead," for, as the}^ f^^^ty i'gI}' on 

 my supposed better judgment, if told to ''seek 

 dead,'^ they deem the game, w^hatever it is, is 

 wounded, and thus, in full reliance on my word, 

 if they were to be deceived, they may go for a 

 mile footing a hare they have no chance of 

 catching. 



To establish a full reliance on the truth of each, 

 as between man and dog, is, or ought to be, the 

 grand attempt of the real sportsman and his 

 dog, the sportsman and his hound. They 

 should love each other, miderstand each other, 

 and have a full reciprocity in the pleasures of 

 the day. 



While on this subject, the capabilities and 

 wondrous discriminative powers of dogs properly 

 taught and judiciously used, I will refer to a 

 circumstance which occurred in the earliest part 

 of September 1871, at Effingham Hill, the resi- 

 dence of my sister, the Lady Caroline Maxse. I 



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