628 DOG-BREAKING. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



HISTLES. " BACKINC 

 TREAT FROM AND RESUMPTION OF POINT. RANGE UNAC- 

 COMPANIED BY GUN. HEADING RUNNING BIRDS. 



A DISTINGUISHING WHISTLE FOR EACH DOG. 



271. THOUGH you may have only begun to shoot 

 last season, have you not often wished to attract the 

 attention of one of your two dogs, and make him 

 hunt in a particular part of the field, but for fear of 

 alarming the birds^ have been unwilling to call out 

 his name, and have felt loath to whistle to him, lest 

 you should bring away at the same time the other 

 dog, who was zealously hunting exactly where you 

 considered him most likely to find birds ? 



272. Again: have the dogs never been hunting 

 close together instead of pursuing distinct beats; and 

 has it not constantly happened, on your whistling 

 with the view to separate them, that both have turned 

 their heads in obedience to the whistle, and both on 

 your signal changed the direction of their beat, but 

 still the two together? And have you not, in despai~ 

 of ever parting them by merely whistling and sig- 

 nalling, given the lucky birds apparently in the most 

 liandsome manner, as if scorning to take any ungenerous 



