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so readily learn hereafter, that first of all 

 lessons, yet so seldom witnessed in tolerable 

 perfection, a regular quartering to find. Of 

 course, you will give him the advantage of the 

 wind, and of the morning air, while the feeding 

 haunt is fresh. Caress him, and talk to him, 

 with " GOOD DOG ! &c." before you throw him 

 off; and then "HEY, AWAY!" giving, with an 

 eager extension of your arm, the direction of 

 his range, walking after him a little, and obliging 

 him, as well as you can, to take this range 

 across the wind. His legs will lead him off, 

 and instinct will soon make him find that he 

 has a nose that was meant for something. He 

 begins to hunt; I hope he throws it, in an 

 attitude of inquiry, into the wind : for, though 

 his range be across, his nose, as his own 

 sagacity will by-and-by teach him, should ever 

 have a bearing to windward. If he puzzles 

 on the ground, you must get up towards him, 

 and encourage him to get on*; with " HEY ON ! 



* Young dogs, who have not yet acquired a carriage of 

 themselves, are very apt to get their noses upon the ground, 

 and to waste their time upon inquiries they have no business 

 with, some of them of a very improper nature. It behoves 

 a tutor, therefore, to endeavour to keep up the nose to 

 pointer-pitch ; for which purpose, where this grovelling pro- 

 pensity is too prevalent, it is not unusual to see recourse had 

 to the " marvellous device" of the puzzle-peg : but, I must 

 confess, I never saw any good done by it ; on the contrary, 



