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a habit which you should not suffer them to 

 contract, and of which you should effectually 

 break them betimes, if it is possible to be 

 done, for a dog that rakes with his nose and 

 follows the game by the track, will never 

 make a good pointer, nor find half so much 

 game as one that hunts with his nose high ; 

 whenever, therefore, you perceive that your 

 young dog is following the track of partridges 

 down wind, call to him with an angry tone 

 hold up, he will then grow uneasy and agitat- 

 ed, going first on one side and then on the 

 other until the wind brings him the scent of 

 the birds. He will only have to find the 

 birds seven or eight times this way, when he 

 will take the wind of himself, and hunt with 

 his nose high. Yet there are dogs which it 

 is impossible almost to break of this fault, 

 and such are worth training. The best me- 

 thod to be used with a dog of that description 

 is, to put the puzzle-peg upon him, that is 

 an instrument of a very simple construction, 

 being no other than a piece of lance wood, 

 or red deal inch board, one foot in length 



