22 TRAINING vs. BREAKING 



meaning just as quickly even should you indiscriminately 

 use all three, 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 

 DO difference. 



Let us charge you once more to be 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 < f 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 ho, he will soon learn what it means; 

 for as he improves in this and becomes steady, b.3 should be 

 taught to point at gradually increased distances, and the 

 word On should be used 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 tbinks that your 

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

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

 wish him to advance, 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 ho once more ; and 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 difference 

 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 

 move him on, especially when trailing ruffed grouse when 



