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his pupils ; and, after going slowly through the motions 

 of loading (the dogs having regularly " down-charged " 

 on the report of the gun), he should call each separately 

 by name, and by signals of the hand send them succes- 

 sively to different, but designated feeding-troughs.* He 

 might then call a dog to him which had commenced 

 eating, and after a short abstinence, make him go to 

 another trough. He might bring two to his heels and 

 make them change troughs, and so vary the lesson, that, 

 in a short time, with the aid of the checkcords, he 

 would have them under such complete command that they 

 would afterwards give him comparatively but little trou- 

 ble in the field. As they became more and more submis- 

 sive he would gradually retire further and further, so as, at 

 length, to have his orders obeyed when at a considerable 

 distance from his pupils. The small portion of time these 

 lessons would occupy compared with their valuable results 

 should warn him most forcibly not to neglect them. 



CHAPTER III. 



INITIATORY LESSONS CONTINUED. SPANIELS. 



30. WHEN your young dog is tolerably well advanced 

 in the lessons which you have been advised to practise, 



* There is often such a similarity in the names of hounds, that a 

 person cannot but be much struck, who for the first time sees them 

 go to their meals, one by one as they are called. ^ 



