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reasoning faculties of no mean order, he has figured it all out 

 and has arrived at correct conclusions in the matter, and yon 

 will find upon trial that he will readily start in the dirccti m 

 you wish him to take at the first wave of your hand. 



AVhile instructing him in this branch of h r s education we 

 may as well improve the opportunity to get his head in the 

 air where it beloDgs, for when we get in the field with him 

 we shall find this accomplishment to be very desirable ; in- 

 deed, I always adopt ths plan from the first in his praclice 

 at " To ho" unless he is naturally high-headed ; and even then 

 it can do no harm. You must be sure that he is well ad- 

 vanced in the lessons already taught before you attempt to 

 teach him this. Then when he is very huDgry take him into 

 a large yard, or still better into some open field where you 

 will be free from interruption by any one, and having pro- 

 vided yourself with two kinds of meat (as mentioned in his 

 first lesson at " To ho") and also wi h two or three sticks 

 about two feet long and as thick a3 your finger and sharpened 

 at each end, you are ready to commence operations. You 

 should always enter the field from the leeward side as in 

 actual hunting ; and after making your pupil cha-ge, you 

 Will walk away from him about twenty yards. Do 

 not go direc ly up wind but diagonally acro:S ; thus, 

 if the wind is west you will go to the northwest or south- 

 west, as you may prefer; and after impaling a piecj 

 of meat upon the end of one of the sticks, set the other 

 end in the ground just firm enough to remain in position. 

 I think that it is better to set it in a bunch of grass or low 

 bushes, that it may be hid from his sight, as it is time to 

 teach him that he must depend upon his nose. If there arc 

 no bushes handy you can easily carry with you a few leafy 

 twigs, or if in winter a few pine boughs, and stick down 

 one or two in front to hide it from view. In this way place 

 one or two more pieces at some little distance from the firs': 

 one and a^so from each other, taking care to put them so 

 that you can work up wind toward them, and be sure that 

 you do not forget their location. 



Now return to your pupil and praise and pet him for his 



