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such junctures avail but little. The dog furiously 

 charges about to find the bird. When at length 

 the trainer gets control of him, his mind is still 

 filled with the ardent desire and purpose to find 

 the bird, and if freed he again begins his riotous 

 search. 



If at length the trainer, by energetic effort, gets 

 control of him and leads him away a quarter of a 

 mile, more or less, from the place where the dead 

 bird is supposed to be, when released the puppy re- 

 turns and persistently searches for it till he is pleased 

 to desist, regardless of his handler's whistling and 

 ordering in the meantime. At every report of the 

 gun the puppy's misbehavior is amplified or modified, 

 accordingly as the circumstances permit. If there are 

 scattered birds about, his riotous charging is sure to 

 flush them all, while he, heedless or oblivious of them, 

 is absorbed in the one idea and effort to possess the 

 dead bird. 



This lawlessness, incorporated as a part of his field 

 work, complicates matters seriously and harmfully. 

 It lowers the standard of all his work as it relates to 

 the service of the gun. The idea of possession con- 

 stantly incites him to lawless alertness. The real or 



