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morsel of biscuit, or of something made pur- 

 posely more agreeable, in the form of coarse 

 gingerbread, from your pocket, on this occa- 

 sion, or on that of a thoroughly obedient, or 

 tolerably obedient, " Down charge," may not 

 be amiss : it furnishes you with an additional 

 means of expressing to him your approbation ; 

 of which he ought to be rendered fully as sen- 

 sible as of your whip. I have seen the best 

 effects produced by a little treat of this nature. 



Jn the above, I have been stating a case of an 

 immediate find after the shot : I will now vary 

 it, with a view of proceeding to a more com- 

 plicated lesson. You bring your dog from the 

 necessary discipline of down charge, and put 

 him to seek dead. He acknowledges the haunt, 

 but he is off again : ha ! here are the feathers 

 from the fall, but the devil of any bird is here : 

 " O !" you begin to cry, " confound this tedious 

 system of discipline and down charge ; I have 

 lost my bird." Be it so : you will get twenty 

 more, in consequence of it, before the season is 

 at an end. But, stop ! you have not lost your 

 bird ; he again touches : " SEEK DEAD, good 

 dog!" again he has it. Now, Sir, here pre- 

 sents itself a glorious opportunity of giving him 

 the first rudiments of another great and valuable 

 lesson, that of footing out his game. I k ; no 



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