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there will be a battle between the pointing in- 

 stinct and the intelligence, and most likely the 

 intelligence will win. The pointing instinct 

 may get a better start than it did on the pre- 

 vious opportunity, and it may be carried fur- 

 ther toward completion, but the intelligence will 

 assert itself and the dog will have a little fun 

 flushing and chasing the birds. 



With still further opportunity to point, the 

 chances are the machinery of the point will 

 move more harmoniously, and the instinctive 

 point may be completed. But the intellectual 

 flush and chase will assert themselves and the 

 conflict between instinct and intelligence will 

 go on. The dog will point a little and will like 

 it, but will like better to flush and chase. 



To understand all this and plan to preserve 

 the good and get rid of the evil is much better 

 than to go at the dog roughshod for his faults. 

 Rather let the pointing instinct develop and 

 then try to eradicate the flushing and chasing 

 fault. This is not always an easy task, and the 

 breaker must understand in the beginning that he 

 will fail in many attempts to make the dog steady 

 on point. The dog must be assisted in the first 

 instance to come upon a covey of birds in the 

 most advantageous way possible. If the breaker 

 has located a covey in a likely place he can work 

 his dog toward it, taking advantage of the 

 wind and time of day to secure a point. The 



