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From our first station at (A), his range is 

 towards (B); you check him at its extent; but 

 you have not advanced, or he does not perceive, 

 or not understand your advancing, and he 

 turns to the right about and half hunting, and 

 half shrinking, perhaps under the apprehension 

 of being chid, he returns within his beat; 

 now this is all direct loss, and crosses behind 

 you; that is, it would be behind you, if you 

 did not face about * directly towards him ; 



* For this valuable idea, as the clue by which we are to 

 get hold of the dog, I feel myself bound to record my obli- 

 gations to the author of a little volume published about forty 

 years ago, entitled, "A Treatise on Field Diversions;" by a 

 Gentleman of Suffolk, a stanch Sportsman. It comprises 

 within a small compass a considerable variety of matter; 

 which, deriving force from an agreeable originality of man- 

 ner, can not fail to interest every man who has any fellow- 

 feeling on the subject. It was from a perusal of this that I 

 first caught some general hints for a rational conduct of the 

 dog ; upon the reduction of which to practice, the system of 

 education which I am now offering was originally founded. 

 I had, at one time, thoughts of republishing it with the addi- 

 tion of notes; but, as its leading article on the mode of 

 training (the setter) is confined entirely to the purposes of 

 the net, an amusement in vogue during the earlier part of 

 the author's life, but now sunk into total disuse, it would not 

 perhaps be relished at this time of day ; nor is it otherwise 

 consistent with the plan, or even the principle of discipline 

 unfolded in the Kunopaedia. 



If I should be induced to complete a chapter which I con- 

 template on Breed, I shall not fail, by a liberal use of some 

 original and important hints, to bring the reader more fully 



