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CHAPTER VI. 



Mr. Teasdale-Buckell — Mr. Llewellyn's setters — Challenge given to 

 Lord Lovat — Advantages of the silent system— ^-Treatment of 

 nervous dogs — Sagacity of pointers — Development of sagacity in 

 pointers and setters — Evils of vScotch Hill-Kennels — Management 

 of dogs by keepers — Individual sagacity — Terrier as setter — 

 Collies as retrievers—* Chacun a son gout ' — Irish water-spaniels — 

 Sagacity of collies and setters— Valuable dogs at times under- 

 estunated — Terrier and collie — Fast retrievers and bad shots — 

 Slow, steady retrievers requisite for wild fowl— Sagacity of a deer- 

 hound — Mustard and Pepper — Homing instinct of Hill-ponies — 

 Homing instinct of falcons — Purchase of dogs, and their trial before 

 purchase — 'Beauty skin-deep' — Nose-power — Pace and staying- 

 power — Test of nose-power — Superiority of nose-power in pointers 

 — Setters in hot weather — Pointers on spread birds — Points of dogs 

 — Pointers v. setters — Dog-dealers — Trial of dogs before purchase 

 — Dealers' dogs — Training of dogs by their owners — Dogs in the 

 field — Running in, and the use of the thrash-cord — Picking up birds 

 — Evils of flogging dogs — High-mettled dogs — Punishment — Im- 

 proper training — Young dogs ' backing ' — Breeding from pedigree 

 dogs — Breeding from a cross — Selecting puppies — Unbroken dogs 

 — Poodles for shooting — Spaniels — Mute spaniels — Double-nosed 

 Scotch-terrier — Author's dog Mufify — Hill-dogs and low-ground 

 shootings — Steady pointers for use on low ground — Author's dog 

 Bosco — Guns and charges. 



I THINK I have sufficiently enlarged upon the advan- 

 tages of training dogs on the silent system, and that 

 ordinarily adopted and advocated by the best authori- 

 ties, such as Mr. Teasdale-Buckell, ' H. H.,' etc. 

 Perhaps no dogs ever known could beat Mr. Llewel- 

 lyn's celebrated setters, either in this country or in 

 America, and in such hands as Mr. Teasdale-Buckell's 



