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mile off or more, if they still see him, should commence shouting 

 and whistling 'to the dogs. Upon this the assistant should let 

 loose the one which is the most lively, and inclined to run to 

 the trainer, when he will immediately exert all his powers 

 to run up to his master. The other dogs should be one at a time 

 let loose, &c. . . . When the nature of the ground will admit 

 of it, it answers well for the trainer to be on a pony, and gallop off 

 up the hill as soon as the dogs get good sight of him, &c. 

 After the trainer has carried their exercise as far as he thinks right, 

 the dogs should be walked back to kennel,' &c. ... In 

 these extracts are embodied the whole of the directions which I 

 gave for regulating the amount of work, and although I confess that 

 subsequent experience has convinced me that there are some breeds 

 which will not stand this extent of work, especially if the dogs 

 have been allowed to lie idle all the summer, yet that there are others 

 in which it will be borne with the greatest advantage ; and in this 

 view I am supported in particular by Mr. Jones' letter published 

 by Mr. Welsh, and generally by all the other five, though not 

 certainly to the same extent. Many large stakes have been won 

 by dogs either wholly untrained or only partially so; but, on 

 the other hand, it would be difficult to say how many have been 

 lost for the want of a sufficient preparation. Even at Altcar it is 

 seldom that a large stake is won without a severe course or two 

 in going through it, and every one must remember instances in 

 which all chance of the stake has been lost by the best dog in it 

 from this cause. I do not contend that any preparation will 

 entirely do away with this element of risk, but that it will greatly 



