542 DOG-BREAKING. 



as it were setting him an example in your own person, 

 by running a few steps in the direction you wish him 

 to go say to the right, cheering him on to take the 

 lead. As he gets near the extremity of his beat, when 

 he does not observe you, he can steal a small advance in 

 the true direction of your own beat, which is directly up 

 the middle of the field meeting the wind. If perceiv- 

 ing your advance he turn towards you, face him wave 

 your right hand to him, and, while he sees you, run on a 

 few paces in his direction that is, parallel to his true 

 direction. As he approaches the hedge the one on 

 your right hand, but be careful that he does not get 

 close to it, lest, from often finding game there, he ulti- 

 mately become a potterer and regular hedge hunter 

 face towards him, and on catching his eye, wave your 

 left arm. If you cannot succeed in catching his eye, 

 you must give one low whistle the less you habituate 

 yourself to use the whistle, the less you will alarm the 

 birds study to do all, as far as is practicable, by 

 signals. You wish your wave of the left arm to make 

 the dog turn to the left his head to the wind, and 

 that he should run parallel to the side of the hedge for 

 some yards say from thirty to forty before he makes 

 his second turn to the left to cross the field ; but you 

 must expect him to turn too directly towards you on 

 your first signal to turn. Should he by any rare chance 

 have made the turn the first one correctly, and thus 

 be hunting up-wind, on no account interrupt him by 

 making any signals until he has run up the distance you 



