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rarest accomplishment of a dog, and not less 

 valuable than rare, is fine quartering ; and I 

 am, therefore, thus minute on the mechanical 

 method of creating it, because there is no one 

 thing which makes such a distinction in the 

 scale of merit between one dog and another, 

 as the sagacious expenditure of his powers in 

 hunting- to find, or an unmeaning, undirected 

 ramble over a country for the chance of stand- 

 ing at game, when he happens to stumble on it. 

 To produce perfection is difficult, and must be 

 the work of time ; so much the more reason for 

 sticking patiently to the principle. You will 

 observe, the great object is to procure a regular 

 advance into the wind, at each end of his line 

 of range, abreast of your line of march in the 

 centre, and rather ahead of you, and then to 

 cross direct to the call or whistle. When in 

 perfection, the whistle only should on all occa- 

 sions be the signal of check; but, at first, the 

 voice also, with the more varying expression of 

 its tones, within the compass of range above 

 alluded to, must be called in to explain and to 

 enforce its meaning. 



In the conduct of this lesson, there is a point 

 of very considerable difficulty, which puzzles a 

 young tutor much ; and in the unskilful manage- 

 ment of which, the talents of many a promising 



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