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You can in practice whic-h you please. Leave him again, 

 checking him when he moves, or letting him do it for him- 

 self when he gets to the end of it, always bringing him, 

 however, back to the peg, jerking the cord with more or less 

 severity. Do this for eight or ten times, and he will not 

 stir. You must now walk quite out of sight, round him, run 

 at him, in fact, do anything you can to make him move, 

 when, if he 'moves, he must be checked as before, until he is 

 perfectly steady. It is essential in this system of breaking 

 that this first lesson should be so effectually taught that 

 nothing shall induce the dog to move, and one quarter of an 

 hour will generally effect this. In all probability, the dog 

 will be much cowed by this treatment. Go up to him, pat 

 him, hft him up, caress him, and take him home for that 

 day. Half an hour per day for each dog will soon get over 

 a long list of them. There is no more severe, I may as well 

 remark here, or more gentle method of breaking than this ; 

 more or less vim being put into the check, according to the 

 nature of the beast. I never saw it fail to daunt the most 

 resolute, audacious devil, nor yet to cow the most timid after 

 the first or second attempt, for it is essential in the fii'st 

 instance that they should obet. The next day, and for 

 many days, you commence as at first. Peg him down, &c., 

 and after he does this properly lift him up and walk him 

 about, holding on to the cord still pegged in the ground, 

 suddenly cry " Down !" accompanying the word with a 

 check more or less severe, as requisite, till he does go dovm. 

 Leave him as before. If he don't move, go up to him, pat 

 him — a young dog ought never to move while breaking until 



