CHAPTER V. 



NOMENCLATEKE. — Breaking and field trial terms ; obsolete 

 words; pointing; flushing; bacliing ; drawing; roading ; 

 pottering ; blinking ; stanch ; ranging ; quartering ; 

 snappy, merry ; style ; bird sense cramped ; loosening 

 up ; class ; mutt. 



ALL Sports and occupations have their own 

 pecuhar nomenclature. Field trials and 

 other sports, as well as dog breaking, are 

 no exceptions, and the commands and expres- 

 sions used by breakers have each their partic- 

 ular significance that would not be understood 

 or accepted if used under different conditions 

 or in other channels. Among the terms used as 

 commands by breakers and handlers the word 

 "charge" is particularly senseless. It has been 

 continued in use among amateurs by the var- 

 ious writers on dog breaking, who, incapable 

 of new ideas and improvements, have produced 

 from time to time books on this subject that 

 they have industriously copied from the works 

 of older writers. There was a time when the 

 tei-m was eminently fitting, but conditions have 

 changed, and there is no valid reason at the 

 present day for ordering a dog to "charge" or 

 "down charge," when you want him to do just 



