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CONFIRMATION OF POINT, 



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LEADING UP TO GAME. 



General Practice of heading the Dog, liable to errors ; where 

 proper. Grouse and Partridges require different Modes 

 of Approach. footing out the Haunt, necessary to the 

 completion of a perfect Point, and the most certain Method 

 of Approach to Game. Sweep of Sagacity to leeward, not 

 defensible. Turnips, &c. not favourable to Instruction in 

 the Management of Point, and still more injurious to the 

 Business of Range and Carriage; negative Example of 

 the Effects ; admissible only to work down a Dog of High 

 Courage ; Expedients. Poachers in Wales ; their Method 

 of killing Woodcocks with a Stalkinghorse minutely 

 described ; Reasons of its Effect in producing Stanchness ; 

 elsewhere applicable to the final Confirmation of Point. 

 Woodcocks; how to find them on the Ground; singular 

 Instance of close Approach by this Manoeuvre. 



IN order to confirm the point of a dog, and to 

 fix him perfectly stanch, it is not unusual for 

 the tutor, after having obtained a tolerable com- 

 mand of a stand to the challenge of " TAKE 

 HEED," with the game before him, to sweep off 

 in a considerable circle, and so come down 

 directly ahead of him. By thus getting round 



