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forward as well. Colonel Ilutcliinson recommends the previous 

 inculcation of tlie perception of height, — in fact, to make tlie 

 dog understand that you mean, when you use the word " Up," 

 that he should raise his head. But this is a refinement in 

 dog-breaking- which possibly mat/ be carried out, yet which, I 

 confess, I think practically'- inoperative. Few of us would like 

 to teach [our hacks to lift their knees, by giving them to under- 

 stand the nature of height, and then telling them to lift them. 

 We should certainly find it much more simple to select hacks 

 with good action, or to breed them even, rather than to convert 

 our colt-breakers into circus-men. If there were no other method 

 of attaining the object, b}^ all means adopt it ; but, when a 

 far easier one is at hand, I should certainly select it in pre- 

 ference. Nevertheless, it may serve to prove the teachableness 

 of the dog ; and, knowing the extent to which his education 

 may be carried by patience and perseverance, I have no doubt 

 that Colonel Hutchinson's plan is cajDable of execution, if the 

 time and trouble necessary for it were properly remunerated. 

 But we must now proceed to the second fault, which consists 

 in rano:ino- too far from the breaker. This mav readily be 

 cured, either by compelling attention to the hand and voice, 

 with the aid of the whip in bad cases ; or by attaching to tlie 

 dog's collar a long cord, which is then suffered to trail on the 

 ground, or is held in the hand of the breaker when the dog is 

 very wild. Twenty, thirty, or at most forty, yards of a small 

 box-cord will suffice for this purpose, and will soon tire down 

 the strongest and most unruly dog. Indeed, an aj)j)lication of 



