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want not an undirected ramble, but a judicious tra- 

 versing beat under your own guidance, which shall 

 leave no ground unexplored, and yet have none twice 

 explored. 



175. Suppose the form of the field, as is usually the 

 case, to approach a parallelogram or square, and that 

 the wind blows in any direction but diagonally across 

 it. On entering at the leeward side send the dog from 

 you by a wave of your hand or the word " On." You 

 wish him, while you are advancing up the middle of it, 

 to cross you at right-angles, say from right to left, then 

 to run up-wind for a little, parallel to your own direc- 

 tion, and afterwards to recross in front of you from 

 left to right, and so on until the whole field is regularly 

 hunted. To effect this, notwithstanding your previous 

 preparatory lessons, you will have to show him the way, 

 as it were (setting him an example in your own person), 

 by running a few steps in the direction you wish him to 

 go (say to the right), cheering him on to take the lead. 

 As he gets near the extremity of his beat, when he does 

 not observe you, you can steal a small advance in the 

 true direction of your own beat, which is directly up 

 the middle of the field, meeting the wind. If per- 

 ceiving your advance he turns towards you, face him, 

 wave your right hand to him, and while he sees you, 

 run on a few paces in his direction (that is parallel to 

 his true direction). As he approaches the hedge (the 

 one on your right hand, but be careful that he does not 

 get close to it, lest, from often finding game there, he 

 ultimately become a potterer and regular hedge-hunter) 

 face towards him, and on catching his eye, wave your 

 left arm. If you cannot succeed in catching his 

 eye, you must give one low whistle, the less you 

 habituate yourself to use the whistle, the less you 



