REMEDIES FOR FAULTS. 



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REMEDIES FOR FAULTS. 



In conducting the breaking of dogs to the gun, it will be 

 found that certain individuals contract faults, which must be 

 remedied as far as possible. These are : 



1st. Hunting too low, or puzzling on all occasions com- 

 monly known as " pottering." 



2ndly. Chasing when hares are on foot. 



3rdly. Refusing to stop when another dog points, or to 

 " down charge," when the gun goes off, as the case may be. 



For the first of these faults a mechanical contrivance has 

 been invented, called the puzzle-peg, which is a projecting 

 peg strapped on to the lower jaw in such away as to prevent 

 the animal reaching the ground with his nose, thus. Colonel 



is; 



THE PUZZLE PEG. 



Hutchinson has invented and described a mode of super- 

 seding the necessity for this, which I shall give in his own 

 words. He is describing the preliminary education of a 

 puppy : " Your pup having become a tolerable proficient in 

 these lessons, you may beneficially extend them by employing 

 the word ' Up,' as a command that he is to sniff high in 

 the air to find the hidden bread or meat, lying, say, on a 



