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hare nor think hare until the entry on game is complete. If 

 you thrash one minute for chasing chickens, the next your 

 pupil will be half-hearted about finding partridges, and will 

 probably blink them when found. 



The author was very successful at field trials, and in 

 having perfectly obedient high rangers of wonderful courage 

 and endurance, and this success was attained on the principle 

 of never giving the pupils a chance to do wrong until they 

 were well established in the practice of doing right. That is 

 to say, until they would quarter fast and freely, and find and 

 point game without caution, and back each other at any 

 distance, they were not tempted by the sight or scent of hares, 

 or not by intention. Afterwards they have to learn to hunt 

 for partridges in the midst of hares and with the scent of 

 them everywhere, and it is only by their extra fondness for 

 winged game that they will hunt across and across the foot 

 scent of dozens of hares without taking any notice of it, and 

 will nevertheless point the body scent of a hare when they find 

 the beast in its seat. 



All this comes to the high-couraged dog practically by 

 nature, provided the breaker begins at the right end of the 

 education and takes step by step, as suggested here in default 

 of a better method. There will be no shouting and storming, 

 or whipcord and wailing, but a steady progress towards 

 perfection, granting always that the pupil has nose, sense, pace, 

 and stamina. 



Pointing and backing may or may not come naturally 

 when the youngster finds that he cannot catch his birds after 

 a few tries, but they are easily encouraged to come sooner by 

 the use of the voice on the hand-broken pupil, or by the use of 

 the check cord. It is, however, just as well to let a puppy chase 

 the birds until he naturally points them. This is education of 

 the best kind in " locating " the game, which implies the quick 

 recognition of the difference between body and foot scents of 

 birds. In the same way it is a good plan to let a puppy run in 

 a few times to a pointing dog to flush and chase his game. 

 This is not doing wrong, for up to this stage the dog will have 



