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GONE ! GONE ; a summons to be delivered in 

 a quick and cheerful tone of voice, accom- 

 panied with a wave of the hand, in show 

 of advance on beat by the tutor, to call off 

 the pupil from lingering away his time upon 

 the workings of an old- foil, when, from 

 having observed the birds steal off or other- 

 wise, it is clearly manifest that the game is 

 gone. In the advanced stages of educa- 

 tion, when the dog has acquired some dis- 

 crimination, and has got some notion of the 

 progress of a haunt, this may be applied 

 with no small advantage to the cultivation 

 of intellect; but with a younger subject, 

 whose business it is never to rattle away 

 from the smallest chance of find, it is not 

 quite sound practice, and is advisable only 

 on the very spot where the bird has just 

 been killed to him. 



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HOLD UP, good dog! HOLD UP; an encou- 

 ragement when he appears to find, or when 

 he touches upon game, to get onward ; or, 

 to break him off from a waste of time upon 

 a false haunt. 



)HAVE A CARE ; a caution when you perceive 

 him getting on too fast upon a find, or when 

 he presses rashly the advance on point. 



