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tition. No interference with their prerogative should 

 be tolerated. 



Any flurry on the part of the judges is certain to 

 have a corresponding effect on the handlers and the 

 competition. If the judges stampede at every cry of 

 "Point F etc., there is sure to be what is termed in 

 field trial parlance "hustling" on the part of the 

 handlers. When the handlers note that the judges 

 will not go in other than an orderly manner, they go 

 in an orderly manner themselves. 



A dog which will not hold his point or back till his 

 handler can walk up to him has little claim to win- 

 ning a field trial, even if he has competitive ability 

 worthy of consideration at all. Steadiness is a mat- 

 ter of test quite as much as is any other quality, 

 therefore there is no reason for unsteadiness on the 

 part of the judges. 



A matter of the first importance is to know when a 

 heat is ended ; that is to say, when the dogs in it have 

 displayed fully such qualities as they have; and to 

 know when all the dogs in a stake have shown the 

 best competition of which they are capable. Gener- 

 ally speaking, all the competition in a stake, if hand- 

 led by the judges so that the dogs will display their 



