176 HUNTING DOGS. 



and is willing to use it, will find a well trained 

 dog of much benefit on the trap line, and often 

 a more genial companion than some partners 

 one may fall in with. But if one is so con- 

 stituted that he must give his dog a growl or 

 a kick every time he comes in reach, and perhaps 

 only giye his dog half enough to eat and cannot 

 treat a dog as a friend, then I say, leave the dog 

 off the trap line. 



