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During this advance, as you bring him up 

 under close command, a slight smack or 

 click of the tongue, such as is used to urge 

 the speed of a horse, immediately suc- 

 ceeded by a low double whistle, or shaken 

 note from the lips, whose modulations may 

 keep his attention engaged and regulate 

 his motions, will sufficiently express the 

 alternate notices of advance and check; 

 and on your near approach to game, inas- 

 much as they create less disturbance, should 

 be substituted in the place of the two last 

 phrases. 



TAKE HEED*; a caution or challenge of still 

 stronger import, at sound of which he 

 ought to be instantly on full stop, stanch. 

 This authoritative challenge must be given 

 whenever you perceive him, by his action, 

 so close as to be in the instant risk of a 

 spring; likewise upon every occasion of 

 blundering up a bird, whether from heed- 

 lessness or accident; and the use of the 

 whip, when called for in either of these 

 cases, must be invariably interlarded with 

 it, as being a word with which the idea 

 of this said whip is ever after to be inse- 



*- See Note, p. 64. 



