496 DOG-BREAKING. 



" drop" 22 to 25 as the main-spring of his educa- 

 tional system. He will teach his young spaniels to 

 " seek dead" 30, 31, 39 where directed by signs of 

 the hand. He will instruct them in " fetching" 92, 94. 

 &G. with the view to some of them hereafter retrieving. 

 He will accustom them to hunt hedge-rows, and light 

 open copses because always under his eye before 

 taking them into closer cover. Nor until they are under 

 some command, and well weaned from noticing vermin 

 and small birds, will he allow them to enter gorse or 

 strong thickets, and then he will never neglect though 

 probably he will have used them before to attach bells 

 of different sounds to the collars of his several pupils 

 one to each so that his ear may at ah 1 times detect any 

 truant straying beyond bounds, and thus enable him to 

 rate the delinquent by name. In this manner he esta- 

 blishes the useful feeling elsewhere spoken of 262 that 

 whether he be within or out of sight he is equally aware 

 of every impropriety that is committed. 



60. Young spaniels, when they have been steadily 

 broken in not to hunt too far ahead on the instruc- 

 tor's side of the hedge, may be permitted to beat on 

 the other and this when only one person is shoot- 

 ing is generally their most useful position, for. they 

 are thus more likely to drive the game towards the 

 gun. 



61. If a keeper is hunting the team, while you and a 

 friend are beating narrow belts or strips of wood, should 

 you and he be placed, as is usual, on the outside, a little 



