28 PRINCIPLES OF DOG TRAINING. 
‘sound of the gun. All of value that are applied 
at the early period of life are, however, based on 
the same principle. They teach a pup to love a 
gun, by associating with its discharge some espe- 
cial pleasure. The primary measures which you 
use are unimportant; a drum, if you have one, or 
an old tin pan, or an empty box, will do, —some- 
thing which, when struck with a stick, will emit 
a sharp, quick sound. This you should at first 
keep at a distance from the pup’s kennel or pen. 
When taking his food to him, whistle or call him 
as is your wont, and at the same time give a 
stroke on whatever you have selected, be it drum 
or pan, and then rapidly approach and feed him. 
Pursue this method, giving each day a heavier 
stroke, and then, after a time, move the instru- 
ment which you employ nearer his kennel, lessen- 
ing the distance gradually. He will in this way 
associate the sounds with your coming, and also 
with his food or his liberty, and, in time, no din 
which you can make, even in his pen, will unnerve 
him. Quite the reverse: he will gladly endure it 
for the pleasure which he is certain will follow. 
This much accomplished, it will be well for you 
now to use a gun or pistol. Instead of the old 
