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accordingly. Should he, as most probably he will for 

 some time, turn too sharply towards you when getting 

 near the hedge, I mean at too acute an angle, incline or 

 rather face towards him. This, coupled with the natural 

 wish to range unrestrained, will make him hunt longer 

 parallel to the hedge, before he makes his second turn 

 towards you. 



133. You may at first strive to correct your dog's 

 uurning too abruptly inwards the first turn by push- 

 ing on in your own person further ahead on your own 

 beat ; but when he has acquired if merely the slightest 

 idea of a correct range, be most careful not to get in 

 advance of the ground he is to hunt ; your doing so 

 might habituate him to cross the field diagonally there- 

 by leaving much of the sides of the fields unhunted, 

 in order to get ahead of you ; and, moreover, you might 

 spring birds you are anxious he should find. Should he, 

 on the other hand, be inclined to work too far upward 

 before making his turn to cross the field, hang back in 

 your own person. 



134. Though you may be in an unenclosed country, 

 let him range at first to no more than from seventy to 

 eighty yards on each side of you. You can gradually 

 extend these lateral beats as he becomes conversant with 

 his business indeed at the commencement rather dimi- 

 nish than increase the distances just named, both for the 

 length of the parallels and the space between them. 

 Do not allow the alluring title " a fine wide ranger " to 

 tempt you to let him out of leading strings. If he be 



