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the latter. A good trainer will always remember this, and 

 adjust his training so that love, justice, honour, truth, will 

 be reflected all through the daily lessons. A dog should 

 never be tricked or deceived. There are few human beings 

 who feel such treatment as acutely as the dog. At the 

 same time it can be trained to thoroughly appreciate and 

 enjoy, a joke and friendly " ragging." If one hits a dog 

 quite lightly in anger it resents it, but if one is having a 

 joke, one can play a tune with a stick on the dog's back, 

 and hit it relatively much harder, and it will enter into the 

 fun with great zest, and stand to be hit until the ditty is 

 finished, when it will bound round one in high delight at 

 participating in the joke. 



Obedience and discipline, based on reason, are the 

 result of the cultivation of the highest qualities of mind. 

 Both can be attained by compulsion, but the only discipline 

 in which I place any real reliance, is that which is based 

 on spontaneous qualities of good in the dog's mind, such 

 as love for its master, honour, justice, etc. 



It is an interesting fact that the story with which we are 

 all familiar of Gelert, the famous dog of Wales, whose grave 

 is still carefully tended to this day on account of his brave 

 and faithful defence of the child from the wolf, is found 

 in varying forms in the folk-lore of most widely-separated 

 countries and races. 



The following clipping from the Times, of December 18th, 

 1 91 9, illustrates the development of discipline in a dog, 

 based on its love and trust in its master's judgment and 

 ruling : 



" For days past every morning has brought fresh news of 

 wrecks on the coasts of Nova Scotia, and along the Gulf 

 of Saint Lawrence, ships having been driven ashore in 

 terrific gales, accompanied by blinding storms of snow, on 



