CHAPTER VII 



THE SCHOOLING OF HUNTERS 



Although the education of the hunter largely 

 depends upon the man in whose care the animal 

 is placed, there is another powerful factor that 

 constitutes a most important item, viz., the in- 

 herent qualifications of the animal, in other 

 words, the legacy of parental abilities — the 

 hunter by birth. The author makes a distinction 

 between the "moulding" of qualifications, and 

 qualifications that have to be "manufactured," 

 which latter, in spite of all skill exercised by the 

 trainer, will never be equal in development to 

 those of inherent possession, provided the 

 education has been liberal and well directed, it 

 being a very much easier matter to spoil the 

 temperament of an animal, no matter how good, 

 by injudicious handling, than it is to create the 

 fulfilment of the original ideas of the trainer. 



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