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give up, and to engage the most determined 

 perseverance on his part to make it out. 

 One bird thus found, after half an hour of 

 such undefeated inquiry, is inestimable, in 

 the certainty with which you thus, for ever 

 after, establish the retrieve. 



WARE BIRD ; a check from a dash upon sight, 

 or upon flutter, of a bird which he thus 

 conceives within the reach of an instant 

 gripe*. 



DEAD ; WARE DEAD ; a check against a similar 

 dash or snap, or against mouthing or foiling 

 the game, as found by himself, or as laid 

 down before him, in defiance of his attempt 

 to touch it. This note of dead! will be 

 converted, as he advances in tuition, into 

 a signal of conscious mutual triumph ; 

 whilst, with a deliberate pause on the part 



* If a dash upon the ground, or snap at a bird struggling 

 to rise, were never excited, excepting in consequence of fire, 

 this phrase, in the sense here applied, might be spared, and 

 the use of the next phrase, of ware dead, might be extended 

 as a general check upon this lawless attempt to seize : but I 

 have seen manifest advantages, in the pause of awakened 

 discernment, from thus keeping perfectly distinct the idea of 

 restraint from the dash at a bird exposed to his eye, or in the 

 act of fluttering to rise, and that conscious forbearance over 

 the dead same which is the subject of the next and last com- 

 luandrnent. 



