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temper that will be of value to him in all his 

 business and social -affairs. The bunches of 

 nerves which all men possess that go off, as it 

 were, at times, upon slight provocation will be 

 under better control, and his stock of patience 

 and spirit of forbearance will have undergone 

 a development that will enable him to view 

 former worries with urbanity. 



There is an increased pleasure in shooting 

 over a dog of your own development and break- 

 ing, and in addition the man who has had some 

 insight into the psychological side of a dog's 

 nature has in handling even a well-broken dog 

 an immense advantage over the man who looks 

 at a dog simply as a machine, without knowing 

 anything of the art of breaking. 



We have all heard the wail of the man de- 

 frauded in buying a dog represented as broken 

 which was worse than unbroken, or of the man 

 who had sent a dog to a breaker, paid the fee 

 and had his dog ruined or returned wilder than 

 when he sent him away. The dog, when he 

 left his hands, went directly into the hands of 

 his master, who, unfamiliar with the methods 

 of dog breaking and unqualified to systematic- 

 ally go to work with the animal, so as to keep 

 him up to all that he knew, was unable to 

 control him and allowed him to display bad 

 tricks or traits of character or develop new 

 ones. If sportsmen would go to the trouble of 



