008 DOG-BREAKING. 



If, in spite of everything, he bolts after the hare, you 

 have nothing for it but patience. It's no use to give 

 yourself a fit of asthma by following him. You have 

 only half as many legs as he has a deficiency you would 

 do well to keep secret from him as long as possible. 

 Wait quietly where you are for an hour if necessary. 

 You have one consolation, puss, according to her usual 

 custom, has run down wind, your dog has lost sight of 

 her, and is, I see, with his nose to the ground, giving 

 himself an admirable lesson in roading out a haunt. 

 After a time he will come back looking rather ashamed 

 of himself, conscious that he did wrong in disobeying, 

 and vexed with himself from having more than a suspicion 

 forced upon him, that he cannot run so fast as the hare. 

 When he has nearly reached you, make him " drop." 

 Scold him severely, saying, " Ware chase " a command 

 that applies to the chase of birds as well as of hares. 

 Pull him to the place where he was when first he got 

 a view of the hare, make him lie down rate him well, 

 call out " No," or " Hare," or " Ware chase," or any 

 word you choose, provided you uniformly employ the 

 same. Smack the whip and punish him with it, but not 

 so severely as you did when we assumed that he tore 

 the bird end of 221. You then flogged him for two 

 offences : first, because he rushed in and seized the bird ; 

 secondly, because he tore it and tasted blood. If you 

 had not then punished him severely, you could never have 

 expected him to be tender-mouthed. On the next occa- 

 sion he might have swallowed tho bird, feathers and all. 



