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be found in most countries, particularly in warm ones ; and there 

 being no carpet in the room, his scratching at night, as you may 

 well imagine, made a loud, disagreeable thumping against the 

 boards, which invariably awoke my friend (& very light sleeper), 

 and he as invariably scolded the dog. This undeviating consistency 

 made the dog at length entirely relinquish the obnoxious practice, 

 until his master was fairly awake, or at least had begun to stretch 

 and yawn. 



166. Now, I want you to observe, that had the noise but only 

 occasionally awakened my friend, however much he might then 

 have scolded, the dog would not have given up the habit ; he 

 would constantly have entertained the hope that he might endeavour 

 to remove his tiny persecutors unreproved, and the temptation 

 would have outweighed the risk. It would have been inconsistent 

 to have frequently but not always checked him. I know a lady, 

 possessing great perseverance and temper, who has taught even cats 

 many tricks nay, since the last edition of this book was printed I 

 have heard of several ladies having most successfully educated dogs 



for the field. A very pleasant girl, Miss G h, almost a stranger 



to me, who sat next to me at a large dinner-party about a year ago, 

 asked me in the course of conversation whether I was related to the 

 author of " Dog-Breaking," and then greatly gratified me by say- 

 ing that her sister had broken in several Pointers for her brother, a 

 M.F.H. She spoke of one particular 1st of September, when her 

 sister was rather nervous as a well-known keen sportsman had been 

 invited to shoot, and a young well-bred dog, solely tutored by 

 herself, was to bear his first shot but at dinner-time she was amply 

 recompensed for all the trouble she had taken by having the delight 

 of learning that her pupil had performed admirably, and had under- 

 stood and been attentive to every signal. I asked how it was that 



if his hair be well wetted with a ment. By a colonial law no charge 

 solution of the gum of the sloe- can be made for the flesh of the 

 tree in water. Fourteen grains fish. Every comer has a right to 

 of the gum to one quart of water. carry off as much of the meat as 

 The capture of the whale, by he may require, but no blubber. 

 the bye, at Bermuda, affords sport On a whale being killed, a well- 

 as exciting as it is profitable. The known signal, hoisted at the seve- 

 fish are struck within sight of the ral look-out posts, quickly informs 

 Islands, and as the water is shoal, the coloured inhabitants of the 

 owing to sandbanks, a short line successful seizure, and whether it 

 is employed. By this line the has been effected at the north or 

 stricken animal tows the har- south side. Numerous claimants 

 pooner's boat along with fearful then hurry off, on foot or in boat, 

 rapidity, an immense wave curling to secure a sufficiency for several 

 far above the high bow. The flesh days' consumption, of a food they 

 of the young whale is excellent, prize far more than beef or mutton, 

 very like veal, and with the black What is not immediately used is 

 population the whaling season is cut into strips, and dried in the 

 one of great feasting and enjoy- sun. 



