FOR THE FIELD AND FIELD TRIALS. 1 3 



some experience to supplement it is essential before 

 any substantial progress as a teacher is reasonably 

 to be expected. The mere reading of a work on dog 

 training, and some hit-or-miss attempts at applying 

 its precepts, do not constitute an education in the 

 art. An accomplished dog trainer is not the product 

 of some hours of reading with a few more hours of 

 trouble with a dog added thereto. 



He who acquires the art must acquaint himself 

 with dog nature, with the details of practical field 

 work as they relate to setters and pointers, and, to a 

 reasonable degree, with the manner of imparting 

 knowledge to a creature so much lower in the scale 

 of intelligence than himself. He, furthermore, must 

 specially school himself in the quality of self-re- 

 straint; for, in the attempt to govern man or dog, 

 it is essential that the governor of others should learn 

 to govern himself. 



However good the instruction may be in itself, it 

 in no wise compensates for the inefficiency conse- 

 quent to ill temper if the latter be exhibited. In 

 short, no treatise can do more than set forth what 

 should be done and what should not be done. 



As to the natural qualifications of a. trainer, in dog 



