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but I never make use of a whip on such occasions. 

 The most sensible and the severest punishment one 

 can inflict on a dog is to fasten him up by the collar to 

 a walking-stick fixed firmly into the ground, and to 

 walk away from him out of sight. He imagines he is 

 going to be left there for good and all, and if he is a 

 sensible and intelligent dog he is sure to guess, after a 

 {itw such lessons, why he has been so left to meditate 

 on his shortcomings. The same system may advan- 

 tageously be adopted with horses, falcons, or indeed 

 any animal it is desired to train. 



It is far more easy to train dogs on grouse than on 

 partridges. A young dog will romp over grass or 

 stubble, stopping as if he were shot when he comes on 

 the scent of birds ; but it is an altogether different 

 matter to get dogs to work carefully in turnips or other 

 thick cover. The scent is less defined, and more 

 careful training is therefore requisite. I have myself 

 owned dogs which nothing could outstrip on a moor- 

 perfect demons to go — both setters and pointers, but 

 if put into turnips they were at once conscious of the 

 difficulty of the work. The most beautiful work I 

 ever saw done by dogs was with a pair of Laverack 

 setters ; strange to say, own brothers. When in 

 turnips they never seemed to lose sight of each other, 

 though gliding swiftly through the cover, and the 

 instant one got the scent both dropped, and it was at 

 times a somewhat difficult matter to find them if the 

 cover was at all high. When one dog found birds he 

 immediately dropped until the gun came up to them, 

 when both lay flat and there remained until every bird 

 was shot ; or if working up to birds they both crawled 

 like serpents when there were very many, and no 



