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faculty in some breeds of feeling a body-scent at long distances, 
while they have no perception of the foot-scent, and this is the 
quality which ought to be most highly prized in the pointer 
or setter, unless he is also wanted to retrieve, in which latter 
case such a nose will be found to be defective. But of this also 
we shall come to a more close understanding in a future part of 
this inquiry. In addition to the use of the “ puzzle-peg ”—_which 
should. only be resorted to in extreme cases, and even in them 
is, as I before remarked, of doubtful utility—the voice should 
be used to cheer the dog when he dwells on the scent too long 
or carries his nose too low. “Hold up!” may be cried in a 
cheering way, and the dog encouraged with the hand waved 
forward as well. Colonel Hutchinson recommends the previous 
inculeation of the perception of height,—in fact, to make the 
dog understand that you mean, when you use the word “ Up,” 
that he should raise his head. But this is a refinement in 
dog-breaking which possibly may be carried out, yet which, I 
confess, I think practically inoperative. Few of us would like 
to teach our hacks to lift their knees by giving them to under- 
stand the nature of height, and then telling them to lift them. 
We should certainly find it much more simple to select hacks 
with good action, or to breed them even, rather than to convert 
our colt-breakers into circus-men. If there were no other method 
