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and fee whether he hath mended his fault : And if you 

 catch any with your Nets, give him the Heads, Necks, 

 iand Pinions for his future encouragement. 



Many more obfervations there are, which are too 

 numerous here to recite *, wherefore I (hall defift, and 

 give you an account of a Water-dog, and fo finifhthis 

 prefent Difcourfe. 



How to train a WATER-DOG, 

 and the ufe thereof, 



I Shall begin with the beft proportion of a Water-dog^ 

 and firll of his colour. Although fome do attri- 

 bute niuch to the colour, yet experience lets us know 

 they are uncertain obfervations. 



To proceed then, your Dog may be any colour and 

 yet excellent i but chufe him of Hair long and curled, 

 not loofe and (bagged : his Head muft be round and 

 curled, his Ears broad and hanging, his Eye full, lively 

 and quick, his Nofe very (hort, his Lip Hound-like, his 

 Chaps with a full fet of ftrong Teeth, his Neck thick 

 and (hort,his Breaft (harp, his Shoulders broad, his Fore- 

 legs ftraight, his Chine fquare, his Buttocks Tound, his 

 Belly gaunt, his Thighs brawny, &c. 



For the training this Dog , you cannot begin too. 

 foon with him \ and therefore as foon as he can lap, 

 you muft teach him to couch and lie down, not daring 

 to ftir from that pofture without kave. Obferve in 

 his firft teaching to let him eat nothing till he deferve 

 it i and let him have no more Teachers, Feeders, Che- 

 ri(hers, or Correftors but One \ and do not alter that 

 wprd you firft ufe in his information, for the Dog takes 

 notice of the found, not the language. 



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