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simply percliocl in a tree out of liis way, and 

 having no apprehension of man. Occasionally, 

 when he himself had marked down a snipe, lie 

 would go straight back to the spot and find it : 

 snipes, particularly the jack, when flushed by him 

 alone, very seldom went far. 



Now I call this making use of a dog, and per- 

 mitting the dog to sliow a sagacity which man 

 cannot teach, but which good usage and judicious 

 treatment may bring forth ; and tliis, again, is the 

 poetry of sport, and, in bringing game to the bag, 

 worth a hundred of the tramjDing nailed-shoes and 

 sticks which are in use in the present day. 



All young hounds and dogs, of every sort and 

 kind, are naturally addicted to run hare. When 

 at their walks, as pu23pies, they have indulged in 

 it ; and, of course, when full grown, they have a 

 lively remembrance of their sport in their ^^outh, 

 and when taken out to hunt they recur to it. 



On no account whatever, when they first evince 

 this inclination, which they themselves do not as 

 yet recognize as a fault, let tlicm be stricken with 

 tlie whip or punished. With foxhounds, get tliem 

 to enter ^r5^ at a fox^ and let them be taught by 

 the old hounds that that is the animal they are 



