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your dogs thus to take a wide sweep when he is ordered, 

 and head a running covey before it gets to the extremity 

 of the field while the other dogs remain near you 

 you would be amply rewarded for months of extra 

 trouble in training, by obtaining shots on days when 

 good sportsmen, with fair average dogs, would hardly 

 pull a trigger. And why should you not? Success 

 would be next to certain if you could as readily place 

 your dog exactly where you wish, as shepherds do their 

 collies. And whose fault will it be if you cannot ? 

 Clearly not your dog's, for he is as capable of receiving 

 instruction as the shepherd's. 



291. Manifestly it would be worth while to take 

 great pains to teach this accomplishment, for in all 

 countries it would prove a most killing one when birds 

 become wild ; and it would be found particularly useful 

 wherever the red-legged partridge abounds, which 

 birds you will find do not lie badly when the coveys 

 are, by any means, well headed and completely broken. 

 But there are other accomplishments nearly as useful as 

 those already detailed; the description of them, however, 

 we will reserve for a separate Chapter. 



