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fallen bird; or, in obedience to that impulse, 

 runs riot and devours the burning haunt; or, 

 from the mere excitement of spirits by the 

 spring of the game and the report of your gun, 

 perhaps giddily rattles about without much 

 meaning. By no means suffer one single article 

 of all this; but attend to him; repeat the 

 "DOWN CHARGE!" until you fix his attention; 

 and then exchange it for " COME IN HERE !" In 

 the inflamed state of his sensations, it is pro- 

 bable he may not attend to you ; but go on for 

 awhile his own way : if in doing this he should 

 happen to spring some remaining bird, chal- 

 lenge him fiercely with " TAKE HEED ! how 

 dare you? TAKE HEED then !" and with " WARE 

 CHASE !" if a start of such tendency should ren- 

 der it necessary ; and then, finally, with " COME 

 IN HERE !" to which the most implicit obedience 

 must be insisted on, and with patience, at any 

 rate, be accomplished*. As soon as you have 

 him in, let him be led in the most formal man- 

 ner, at the chain's end, under the continued 

 admonition of " DOWN CHARGE then ! how 

 dare you? DOWN CHARGE!" but without that 

 harassing and terrifying violence of manner 

 which has been prescribed as necessary to 

 restrain the tendencies to blood, until you bring 



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* For the method of effecting this, recur to page 29. 



