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CHECKCORD DESCRIBED. 



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being bewildered by an endeavour to comprehend novel 

 signals or words of command. I put it to you as a 

 sportsman, whether he will not have the more delight 

 and ardour in hunting, the more he feels that he under- 

 stands your instructions? and, further, I ask you, 

 whether he will not be the more sensitively alive to 

 the faintest indication of a haunt, and more readily 

 follow it up to a sure find, if he be unembarrassed by any 

 anxiety to make out what you mean, and be in no way 

 alarmed at the consequences of not almost instinctively 

 understanding your wishes ? 



53. In all these lessons, and those which follow in 

 the field, the checkcord will wonderfully assist you 



THE CHECK 'HOLD HARD!' 



Indeed, it may be regarded as the instructor's right 

 hand. It can be employed so mildly as not to inti- 

 midate the most gentle, and it can, without the aid of 



