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make him so. I am most unwilling to think that you 

 will be too severe, but I confess I have my misgivings 

 lest you should occasionally overlook some slight faults 

 in the elation of a successful right and left. Filling the 

 game-bag must be quite secondary to education. Never 

 hesitate to give up any bird if its acquisition interfere} 

 with a lesson. Let all that you secure be done accord- 

 ing to rule, and in a sportsmanlike manner. 



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FIRST LESSON IN AUTUMN CONTINUED. ASSISTANT. 



192. IT is proper you should be warned that you 

 must not always expect a dog will " toho " the first day 

 as readily as I have described, though most will, and 

 some especially pointers even more quickly, if they 

 have been previously well-drilled, and have been bred 

 for several generations from parents of pure blood. 



I do not say bred in and in. Breeding in and in, to 

 a certainty, would enfeeble their intellects as surely as 

 their constitutions. In this way has many a kennel been 

 deprived of the energy and endurance so essential in a 

 sportsman's dog. 



193. As in the present instance, it often occurs that a 



