504 DOG-BREAKING. 



make any of them fetch game certainly never to lift 

 anything which falls out of bounds though all the 

 team should be taught to "seek dead." This is the 

 plan pursued by the Duke of Newcastle's keepers, and 

 obviously it is the soundest and easiest practice, for it 

 must always be more or less difficult to make a spaniel 

 keep within his usual hunting limits, who is occasionally 

 encouraged to pursue wounded game, at his best pace, 

 to a considerable distance. 



75. Other teams are broken no more than to keep 

 within range, being allowed to hunt all kinds of game, 

 and also rabbits ; they, however, are restricted from 

 pursuing wounded flick further than fifty or sixty 

 yards. Where rabbits are abundant, and outlying, 

 a team thus broken affords lively sport nothing escapes 

 them. 



76. Wild spaniels, though they may show you most 

 cock, will get you fewest shots, unless you have well- 

 placed markers. There are sportsmen who like to take 

 out one steady dog to range close to them, and a couple 

 of wild ones to hunt on the flanks, one on each side, ex- 







pressly that the latter may put up birds for the markers 

 to take note of. 



77. An old sportsman knows mute spaniels to be most 

 killing : a young one may prefer those which give 

 tongue if true from the beginning owning nothing but 

 game, because, though undeniably greater disturbers 

 of a cover, they are more cheerful and animating. The 

 superiority of the former is, however, apparent on a still 



