

ON 



HUNTING IN COMPANY, 



BRIGADING IN THE FIELD, $ c . 



IT can not be denied, however beautifully perfect 

 a dog may be made up as a single dog alone, that 

 his education must be considered as only half 

 completed, until he is rendered equally perfect 

 in company ; that is to say, that he shall possess 

 enough of self-command not to press forward 

 on, and thereby interrupt the point of another 

 dog, whom he discovers fixed, or evidently 

 drawing up to game immediately before him ; 

 but from that moment, or from the moment he 

 shall have his attention awakened to such dis- 

 covery by the summons of Take heed! to 

 become as a statue immoveable, with his nose 

 directed to the finding dog. This is termed 

 backing, or being stanch behind. And further- 

 more, that when he himself shall have the find, 

 he shall not permit himself to be urged forward, 

 beyond the immediate direction of his own judg- 

 ment on the subject of distance, by any indecent 



