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hand. The less noise you make, the steadier your 

 dog will hunt; your voice or the whistle should be 

 used as little as possible. If you teach your dog to 

 hunt by the motion of your hand, he will regularly 

 look for the signal whenever he is at a loss; whereas, 

 if you use much noise, he will scarcely ever turn to 

 look where you are, satisfied with hearing alone. 

 Make the dog cross you backward and forward, from 

 one hedge to the other, every now and then advan- 

 cing yourself sixty or seventy yards- In this manner, 

 the field should be hunted regularly through; and if 

 there be any game, you will be certain to find it, 



We will now suppose your dog arrived at that pe- 

 riod at which he ought to be stopped. When either 

 of your dogs find game, and the young one springs 

 and chases it, bring him back to the place whence it 

 sprung, and there make him lie down, calling out 

 toho! several times, and using rough and angry words 

 also, in order to check him. If, after this trouble 

 repeatedly, you find he continues obstinate,, you must 

 administer the discipline of your whip, the degree ot 

 which must be regulated by the disposition of the 

 dog, with which, by this time, you will most likely be 

 thoroughly acquainted. I would wish to impress it 

 on the mind of the sportsman, that a dog which will 

 not bear the whip, is completely ruined if corrected 

 too severely; and numbers of very promising young 

 dogs have been thus rendered useless, particularly by 

 ignorant, passionate men, who make a trade of dog- 

 breaking. Excessive flogging is apt to make a young 



