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Before I quit entirely this part of my subject, 

 and get oat of reach of my diagram, 'I wish to 

 notice another error on this head of quartering: 

 it occurs to me, from the recollection of one 

 dog who, from an original defect in his instruc- 

 tion here, would uniformly take a tolerable 

 beat on one side towards (o); and as regularly 

 make the most ridiculous twist back again on 

 the other (as at Q): now, it is pretty obvious 

 how this error has been created ; his teacher 

 has been one of those who want to get on too 

 fast, and are more solicitous about getting over 

 the ground than of hunting it : the pupil had 

 never been duly drilled with " To the right 

 or left face!" but, taking his cue from the 

 strides of his companion, he had learned to 

 range off ahead too much in the diagonal (from 

 N to o). Here he turns to the whistle given him 

 by the tutor already in advance near (N); and, 

 not being much out of distance, off he goes at 

 his habitual angle towards (p) ; and, stretching 

 away to the left side of the beat, arrives at (Q) 

 by the time the other is got up to (N) : here he 

 takes his proper turn into the wind ; but, on 

 receiving a summons, he perceives his increas- 

 ing error in distance, and does his best to repair 

 it immediately, by sweeping in towards his 

 director; on whose advance towards (P) he 

 curves off on beat to the right ; where, in con- 



