22 TRAINING vs. BREAKING 



meaning just as quickly even should you indiscriminately 

 use all thi\ e, as it is the word on every time, and even if 

 you should paraphrase it, as a well known sportsman is in 

 the habit of doing, and order you dog to Git on, it will make 

 no difference. 



Let us charge you once more to he sure and issue all your 

 commands in a decided manner, and always in your ordinary 

 tone of voice; and do not fail to deliver each one with a 

 falling inflection, for we never yet saw the man who issued 

 his orders with a rising inflection but was sadly bothered to 

 have them obeyed. By using this word, or any of the above 

 variations, when you cluck to him to take his food, he will 

 soon understand its meaning if the word instantly follows 

 the cluck. Probably he will get the two mixed at first, but 

 as you practice him at To 7io, he will soon learn what it means ; 

 for as he improves in this and becomes steady, he should be 

 taught to point at gradually increased distances, and the 

 word On should be U3ed to move him up ; and in a short 

 time, if this is properly managed, he will carefully and 

 steadily "draw ; ' on a piece of meat for a long distance. 

 Great care must be had that you do not confuse him by 

 seemingly contradictory orders, for he now thinks that your 

 cluck and On mean one and the same thirg, and in order to 

 ttach him the diff rence you must omit the cluck when you 

 wish him to a Ivance, and omit the On when you wish him to 

 eat the morsel before him. This can be readily accompli -hed 

 by placing the meat four or five feet from him, and after he 

 has pointed it a short time tell him to Go on, and when he 

 is close to it make him To Iw once more ; an I then cluck to 

 him as a signal that he may have it. We always partially 

 omit the On after the cluck, as soon as he appears to under- 

 stand its meaning, only using it enough to keep him from for- 

 getting it, and as soon as we begin to teach him the diff ere nc 3 

 we are very careful not to use either one in place of the 

 other, until he has the lesson well learned and appears to 

 thoroughly understand both signals, when we can safely mix 

 them again ; for oftentimes when shooting we may wish to 

 m <ve him on, especially when trailing ruffed grouse when 



