2/O TRAINING THE HUNTING DOG 



numbers are not so great as they were formerly. 

 Some men are constitutional kickers. Whether at 

 play or at business, their selfishness always domi- 

 nates their will and blinds their judgment. Adver- 

 tising their dogs, a love of notoriety, faulty informa- 

 tion, etc., actuate others. But whatever the opinion 

 of the multitude may be, the judge should not be in- 

 fluenced by it in the least. Just decisions as the 

 judge himself evolves them should be the only con- 

 sideration, regardless of who approves or disap- 

 proves. At best the opinion of the multitude is of 

 little value. There will be sufficient diversity of 

 opinion in it to prove almost anything. 



Some men will have a better understanding of a 

 dog's work in one day than some other men will have 

 in a lifetime. The matter of brains and natural apti- 

 tude governs in this case as it does in all other 

 branches of man's intelligent effort ; therefore it is es- 

 sential that a field trial judge have that somewhat 

 uncommon quality called common sense. 



The! average man who has not by habit been 

 schooled to concentration finds great difficulty in 

 concentrating his thoughts on one subject for a pro- 

 longed period of time; indeed, without a prior school- 



