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I do require it of him*. In every view of 

 utility, as well as of beauty, it forms the 

 tutor's triumph. Be it yours, therefore, 

 invariably to arrest him with it, even at the 

 utmost limit of his range, fixed and immove- 

 able, his eye eagerly bent on you, watching, 

 with impatience watching, the motions of 

 your reloading, but still waiting the signal 

 of the hand or voice, to be given before 

 you stir from the spot (if you move, the 

 charm is over), as the warrant for his coming 

 in direct for your further orders. 



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SEEK DEAD ; a notice for eager close inquiry 

 after what he may have seen fall, or for 

 what he is to take your word for having 

 seen. This notice to be issued as you bring 

 him up and put him on the haunt, and 

 repeatedly sounded as you again and again 

 recall him over the ground, with Back here, 

 back ! SEEK DEAD good dog! and as you 

 continue to move along with him and keep 

 him up to the unwearied search ; in order 

 to fix his attention to what he is never to 



* As the very cardinal point of duty, its merits, as well as 

 the mode of creating perfection in it, have been amply and 

 studiously indicated (p. 37 to 49); to the re-perusal of which 

 I request explicitly to refer the reader. 



