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proposition that more harm than good is done 

 with the whip. Old hands at the business l<now 

 from experience when and how to use the whip, 

 but the amateur is likely to be too free with it. 

 The longer a man breaks dogs, the less he is 

 inclined to use the whip. When he does use it 

 the occasion will be when he can make such a 

 direct application of the punishment that it will 

 be associated with the offense for which the dog 

 was corrected. It should be stated, too, that old 

 handlers wait until they catch a dog in the act, 

 and then ply the lash effectively, making the 

 dog know just why he was punished. Unless 

 the punishment can be inflicted immediately on 

 the commission of an offense, it is better to let 

 the dog off with a slight scolding. 



THE WHISTLE. 



There are innumerable whistles on the mar- 

 ket, and although the sounds they produce are 

 satisfactory in tone and volume, they fail never- 

 theless to answer in a highly satisfactory way 

 the breaker's purposes. A whistle of buckhorn, 

 wood or rubber is to be preferred to one of 

 metal, but the trouble with most whistles is that 

 the mouthpiece is too short and necessitates the 

 breaker holding the whistle to his mouth. What 

 he really needs is a whistle with a good long 

 mouthpiece that his lips will retain without any 

 assistance from the hand. 



The dog should be accustomed to one whistle 



