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CHAPTER V. 



INITIATORY LESSONS OUT OF DOORS. TRICKS. 



110. As I before observed, you can practise most of 

 the initiatory lessons in your country walks. Always put 

 something alluring in your pocket to reward your pupil 

 for prompt obedience. Do not take him out unnecessa- 

 rily in bad weather. On no account let him amuse him- 

 self by scraping acquaintance with every idle cur he 

 meets on the way ; nor permit him to gambol about the 

 lanes. Let him understand by your manner that there 

 is business at hand. Never let him enter a field before 

 you. Always keep him at your heels, until you give 

 him the order to be off. You will find him disposed to 

 presume and encroach. According to the old adage, 

 " Give him an inch, and he will take an ell." He will 

 be endeavoring to lead rather than to follow, and, if he 

 fancies himself unobserved, he will most perseveringly 

 steal inch upon inch in advance. Be ever on the watch, 

 ready to check the beginning of every act of disobe- 

 dience. Implicit obedience in trifles will insure it in 

 things of more importance. 



111. For some time, but the period is uncertain say 

 from his being eight months old until double that age* 



* I once had a pointer pup whose dam was broken in (aftor a 

 fashion) and regularly shot to when seven months old. Without 



