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gain your object so quickly, and I speak with a confi- 

 dence derived from long experience in many parts of 

 the world, on a subject that was, for several years, my 

 great hobby.* 



3. Every writer is presumed to take some interest in 

 his reader ; I therefore feel privileged to address you 

 as a friend, and will commence my lecture by strongly 

 recommending, that, if yotfr occupations will allow it, 

 you .take earnestly and heartily to educating your dogs 

 yourself. If you possess temper and some judgment, 

 and will implicitly attend to my advice, I will go bail 

 for your success, and, much as you may now love 

 shooting, you will then like it infinitely more. Try the 

 plan I recommend, and I will guarantee that the 

 Pointer or Setter Pup which I will, for example sake, 

 suppose to be now in your kennel, shah 1 be a better dog 

 by the end of next season I mean a more killing dog 

 than probably any you ever yet shot over. 



4. Possibly you will urge, that you are unable to 

 spare the time which I consider necessary for giving 

 him a high education brief as that time is, compared 



* It may be satisfactory to others to know the opinion of so un- 

 deniable an authority as Colonel Hawker. The Colonel, in the 

 Tenth Edition of his invaluable Book on Shooting, writes page 285 

 " Since the publication of the last edition, Lieut.-Col. Hutchin- 

 son's valuable work on ' Dog-breaking ' has appeared. It is a per- 

 fect vade mecum for both Sportsmen and Keeper, and I have great 

 pleasure in giving a cordial welcome to a work which so ably sup- 

 plies my own deficiencies " 



