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weeks, then take the rabbit out in the garden 

 and let it run in your cabbage or carrot beds to 

 hide up ; put the pup on the search for it, find 

 it, and bring it to you. Lastly, take the rabbit 

 into a meadow and repeat the process as before. 



When the pup is five to six months old, you 

 may try him with a larger rabbit, one that will 

 run for fifty yards before hiding up ; let the 

 pup see it start, and then turn his head away 

 as soon as it has gone a few yards, make him 

 take the scent, seek for it, and bring it to you. 

 You should fire a little powder off as the 

 rabbit is running away. 



Next, take a sparrow, thrush, or blackbird, 

 clip his wings, and turn down in the high grass, 

 or in the garden, or in a young wood ; let the 

 dog find that and bring it to you as before. 



When your pup gets strong enough to carry 

 a full grown rabbit, get one that is a good 

 runner and stick it in the throat with a pen- 

 knife, like you would a fowl. Let the rabbit 

 go and it will run sixty or seventy yards before 

 it turns up dead ; make the pup search for it 

 and bring it to you as before. 



