404 CONTENTS. 



276. Dog to back the Gun ; how taught ; it creates caution 



277. Advantage of Dog backing the Gun. 278. American Wood- 

 Duck. 279. Dog to retreat from point and resume it 280. How 

 taught. 281. Shows Dog object for which he is hunted. 282. 

 Not taught too early. 283. Dog's consciousness of its object. 

 284. Dog to hunt from leeward to windward, unaccompanied by 

 Gun ; how taught. 285. A careful Dog running down wind 

 would not spring Birds. '286. The great advantages of the 

 accomplishment. 287. Dog to head running Birds ; could be 

 taught. 288. How Dog taught to hunt " unaccompanied by 

 Gun," 289. The accomplishment taught by "lifting;" not com- 

 menced first season. 290. Could be taught as easily as Shep- 

 herds' collies are instructed. 291. Particularly useful where the 

 red-legged Partridge is found. 



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BETTER TO RETRIEVE. BLOODHOUNDS. RETRIEVERS TO " BEAT." WOUNDED 

 WILD FOWL RETRIEVED FIRST. 



292. Setter to retrieve ; obtain thereby in one Dog the services of 

 two ; necessity of having some Dog that retrieves. 293. Predi- 

 lection for Setters confessed ; Reasons given. 294. One Dog only 

 to retrieve. 295. Let " retrieving " be done by " Finder." 296. 

 Seeking Dead with two Dogs ; Winged Bird searched for in direc- 

 tion of covey's flight. 297. Scent differs of wounded and un- 

 wounded Birds. 298. Three dead Snipe lifted in succession ; 

 Setter that stood fresh Birds while carrying a dead one ; Pointer 

 that pointed Partridge while carrying a Hare ; Retriever re- 

 fusing to relinquish chase of wounded Hare. 299. Injudiciousness 

 of retrieving Setter pointing dead. 300. Argument against em- 

 ploying retrieving Setters holds against using regular Retrievers. 

 301. Regular Retrievers to beat; its advantages; one Dog does 

 the duty of two. 302. Water Retrievers, or Water Spaniels, to 

 retrieve crippled before picking up dead Wild Fowl ; how taught. 

 303. None of these accomplishments so difficult to teach as a 

 good range. 304. Might be taught by your Gamekeeper, but 

 not to be expected of regular Breaker. 



