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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 you 

 will find upon trial that he will readily start in the direction 

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



While instructing him in this b anch of h's education we 

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

 dr where it belongs, for when we get in the field with him 

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

 deed, I always adopt th s plan from the first in his practice 

 at "To ho" unless he is caturally 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 hungry take him into 

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

 will be frte 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 as your finger and sharpened 

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

 should always enter the field from the leeward side a 3 in 

 actual hunting ; and after making your pupil ch.a-ge, you 

 will walk away from him about twenty yards. Do 

 not go dircc ly up wind but diagonally across; thus, 

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

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

 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 are 

 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 first 

 one and also 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 



