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therefore, must approximately apportion his ground 

 so that each brace will have a trial on unworked 

 ground, dividing the choice and poor parts as equit- 

 ably as may be, so that the braces will have chances 

 as near alike as intelligent planning can devise. If 

 one dog finds and points a dozen bevies in a certain 

 course, and another dog, working equally well in 

 another course, finds no birds because there are none 

 in it to find, the former would likely receive the ap- 

 proval of the green judge, who has yet to learn the 

 value of opportunity or its absence. The trained 

 judge has all such considerations in mind. 



The next greatest affliction in comparison with the 

 judge who is frantically intent on being everywhere 

 at the same time, right or wrong, is the judge who 

 has no ideas in respect to going anywhere. He is 

 weak and indecisive, the competition lags and is weak 

 in consequence, because he does not know where to 

 go nor what to do. 



Every few moments there is likely to be some mat- 

 ter submitted to him for a ruling, and, however good 

 he may be in an actual day's shooting, if he is not 

 competent as a judge he will be unable to conceal it. 

 Indecision makes incompetency manifest, and the 



