CHAPTEE X. 



FIRST LESSON IN SEPTEMBER CONTINUED. ASSISTANT. VERMIN. 



279. Some Dogs will not point readily Breeding in and in, error of. 280. Instance 

 of two young, untaught, highly-bred Pointers, behaving well first day shown 

 Game Dogs more inclined to point at first than afterwards. 281. Checkcord 

 employed spike attached to it 282. With wild dog assistant useful Signals 

 to. 283. How particularly useful with a badly broken Dog Range of Stoat 

 Traps better than Guns. In Note, Hen-harrier feeding her yonng Decoy Owl 

 for Winged- Verm in Keeper to possess Dog that hunts Vermin Account of a 

 capital Bull-Terrier Destructiveness of Stoats. (See Appendix). 2S4. Shy 

 birds, how intercepted between Guns and dog. Cheeta driven near Antelopes 

 by cart circling and never stopping. In Note, Cheeta always selects the Buck. 

 Cheeta how trained. 285. "Heading" Dog at his point not practised too 

 often Dog to acquire a knowledge of his distance from Game. 286. Beautiful 

 instance of Pointer correcting his Distance. 2S7. Constantly "Heading" Dog 

 may make him too immoveable. 288. A fault often caused by over-punishment. 



289. Mr. C t's Bitch, which persisted 'three times in taking up the same 



point. 290 to 292. Instance of fine " roading" in a young Dog. 293. False points 

 caused by over-punishment Self-confidence and experience only cures for over- 

 caution. 294. Dog's manner shows position of birds. 295. Curiously instanced 



in a Dog of Lord M d's. 296. Also shows species of Game Pointer on 



Rabbits. 297. Young Dog drawing upon his first Blackcock. 298. Terrier 

 pointing four kinds of game, and each in a different attitude. 



279. IT is proper you should be warned that you must 

 not always expect a dog will "toho" the first day as 

 readily as I have described, though most will, and some 

 (especially pointers) even more quickly, if they have 

 been previously well-drilled, and have been bred for 

 several generations from parents of pure blood. 



I do not say bred in and in. Breeding in and in, to a certainty, 

 would enfeeble their intellects as surely as their constitutions. In 

 this way has many a kennel been deprived of the energy and en- 

 durance so essential in a sportsman's dog. 



280. The late Lord Harris gave Mr. M 1 (mentioned in 195), 



then residing in Essex, two young, very highly bred pointer pups, 



a brother and sister. Mr. M 1, after some months, carried them 



into Kent, and, without their having had the least preliminary 

 instruction, or ever having seen a bird, took them out partridge- 



