DOG-BREAKING. 



CHAPTER I. 



PRELIMINAEY OBSERVATIONS. QUALIFICATIONS, IN BREAKER, 

 IN DOG. 



1. Dog-breaking an Art easily acquired. 2. Most expeditious Mode of imparting 

 every Degree of Education, Time bestowed determines Grade of Education. 

 In note, Col. Hawker's opinion. 3. Sportsmen recommended to break in their 

 own Dogs. 4. Men of property too easily satisfied with badly-broken Dogs. 

 Keepers have no Excuse for Dogs being badly broken. 5. Great Experience in 

 Dog-breaking, or Excellence in Shooting, not necessary. Dispositions of Dogs 

 vary. 6. What is required in an Instructor. 7. Early in a Season any Dog will 

 answer, a good one necessary afterwards. Hallooing, rating Dogs, and loud 

 whistling spoil Sport. In note, Age and choice of birds. Several shots fired 

 from Stooks at Grouse without alarming them. American Partridges and our 

 Pheasants killed while at roost. 8. What a well-broken Dog ought to do. 

 9. Severity reprobated. 10. Astley's Method of teaching his Horses. 11. Fran- 

 coni's Cirque National de Paris. 12. Initiatory Lessons recommended to be 

 given when alone with Dog given fasting. 13. Success promised if rules be 

 followed. Advantages of an expeditious Education. September shooting not 

 sacrificed. 



1. DOG-BREAKING, so far from being a mystery, is an 

 art easily acquired when it is commenced and continued 

 on rational principles. 



2. I think you will be convinced of this if you will 

 have the patience to follow me, whilst I endeavour to 

 explain what, I am satisfied, is the most certain and 

 rapid method of breaking in your dogs, whether you 

 require great proficiency in them, or are contented with 

 an inferior education. No quicker system has yet been 

 devised, however humble the education may be. The 

 education in fact, of the peasant, and that of the future 

 double-first collegian, begins and proceeds on the same 



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