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a cast to the left. The underhand bowler's swing of the 

 right hand and arm, will show that he is to hunt in a 

 forward direction.* Your occasionally throwing the 

 delicacy (in the direction you wish him to take), whilst 

 waving your hand, will aid in making him comprehend 

 the signal. You may have noticed how well, by watch- 

 ing the action of a boy's arm, his little cur judges 

 towards what point to run for the expected stone. 



37. When the hidden object is near you, but between 

 you and the dog, make him come towards you to seek 

 for it, beckoning him with your right hand. When he 

 is at a distance at the "Drop," if you are accustomed 

 to recompense him for good behaviour, you can employ 

 this signal to make him rise and run towards you for 

 his reward, (and, according to my judgment, he should 

 always join you after the " down charge," 271). By 

 these means you will thus familiarise him with a very 

 useful signal ; for that signal will cause him to approach 

 you in the field, when you have made a circuit to head 

 him at his point (knowing that birds will then be lying 

 somewhere between you and him), and want him to 

 draw nearer to the birds and you, to show you exactly 

 where they are. This some may call a superfluous re- 

 finement, but I hope you will consider it a very killing 

 accomplishment, and being easily taught, it were a pity 

 to neglect it. When a Setter is employed in cock- 

 shooting, the advantage of using this signal is very 



* Obedience to all such signals day retrieving, as instanced in 



will hereafter be taught out of 277, it will be your aim to get 



doors at gradually increased dis- him not to seek immediately, but 



tances : and to confirm him in the to watch your signals, until by 



habit of sniffing high in the air obeying them you will have placed 



(41) for whatever you may then him close to where the object lies, 



hide, put the bread or meat on a at which precise moment you will 



stick or bush, but never in a hedge say energetically "Find," and 



(175). With the view to his some cease making any further signs. 



