606 DOG-BREAKING. 



beg we may have no further acquaintance, if you ever 

 even in imagination, shoot them to your young dog. 

 Should you be betrayed into so vile a practice, you must 

 resign all hope of establishing in him a confirmed syste- 

 matic range. He will degenerate into a low potterer, 

 a regular hedge-hunter. In turnips he will always be 

 thinking more of rabbits than birds. It will be soon 

 enough to shoot the little wretches to him when he is a 

 venerable grandfather. The youngster's noticing them 

 which he would be sure to do if you had ever killed 

 one to him might frequently lead to your mis-instructing 

 him, by earnestly enforcing " Care " at a moment when 

 you ought to rate him loudly with the command " Ware " 

 or " No." But to our immediate subject. 



231. Defer as long as possible the evil day of shooting 

 a hare over him, that he may not get too fond 65 

 of such vermin I beg pardon, I mean game and when 



"breaking fence." A fine, free-ranging pointer, belonging to one 



of the brothers H y, when brought to an enclosed country, 



became quite subdued and dispirited. He could not stand the 

 rating he received for bounding over the hedges, and he evidently 

 derived no enjoyment from the sport, though there were plenty 

 of birds. On returning to the Highlands, he quite recovered his 

 animation and perseverance. He added another to the many evi- 

 dences that dogs are most attached to, and at home on, the kind of 

 country they first hunted. 



[ This note is applicable to the pointer, used to the pinnated grouse 

 on the Prairies, when brought into close shooting on quail, <fec.] 



H. W. H. 



