170 EDUCATION OF CHEETA. [CH. x. 



proach within thrice that distance. In Yorkshire, very late in the 

 season, when the grouse are so scared that they will not allow a dog 

 or man to get near them, it often happens that a good bag is made 

 by the gun keeping just a-head of a cart and horse. Here, how- 

 ever, no circuit is made. The birds are found by chance. The only 

 clog employed is the retriever, kept in the cart until he is required 

 to fetch. 



285. You must not, however, too often try to work 

 round and head your pupil when he is pointing. Judg- 

 ment is required to know when to do it with advantage. 

 If the birds were running, you would completely throw 

 him out, and greatly puzzle and discourage him, for they 

 probably would then rise out of shot, behind you, if 

 they were feeding up wind, behind him, if they were 

 feeding down wind.* Far more frequently make him 

 work out the scent by his own sagacity and nose, and 

 lead you up to the birds, every moment bristling more 

 and more, at a pace t entirely controlled and regulated 

 by your signals. These being given with your right 



animal retains a firm hold. The he quit hold of the wind-pipe as 

 next step is for the man again to long as the prostrate animal can 

 commence feeding near the cart, make the slightest struggle for 

 but without making any noise, breath. This affords the keeper 

 the removal of the hood being the ample time to cut off a limb, 

 only thing that tells the spotted which he thrusts against the 

 beast to look about him for his cheeta's nose, and as soon as the 

 dinner. The last step is the sub- still quivering dainty tempts him 

 stitution of a kid or wounded an- to grasp it, he is again led off to 

 telope, for the keeper with his his cart. He is then further re- 

 provision basket, when it rarely warded with a drink of warm blood 

 happens that nature's strong in- taken from the inside of the an- 

 stinct does not make the cheeta telope, and the scene concludes 

 seize with eagerness the proffered by the carcass being strapped 

 prey. His education is now com- under the bandy, 

 pleted ; but for many months he * Many think that grouse feed 

 is never unhooded at a herd unless more down wind than partridges, 

 the driver has managed to get the f A pace that keeps the sports- 

 cart within a very favouring dis- man at a brisk walk is obviously 

 tance. the best. It is very annoying to 

 The cheeta knocks over the buck be unable, by any quiet encourage- 

 with a blow of his paw on the ment, to get a dog to " road " as 

 hind-quarters, given so rapidly rapidly as you wish an annoy- 

 that the eye cannot follow the ance often experienced with natu- 

 motion, and then grasps him rally timid dogs, or with those 

 firmly by the throat ; nor will which have been overpunished. 



