CHAPTER XI. 
QUARTERING, BACKING, ETC. 
QUARTERING is a most desirable qualification, 
and, when properly and well done, constitutes 
beautiful work. It is simply the movements of 
a dog on parallel lines over a field, cutting it 
up, as it were, and covering nearly all parts 
of it. The following diagram will explain the 
course both the sportsman and his dog should 
pursue in beating up game in an open field. The 
straight lines represent the direction the dog 
should go; the diagonal lines mark the course for 
the sportsman. 
A represents the point from which the dog is 
thrown off in the direction of B, while the sports- 
man walks towards J, which point brings him in 
sufficient proximity to his dog when he reaches 
the fence or boundary to call him round on the 
next parallel line, C D, and while the dog is 
working down this, he walks from I to J, and so 
on, until the field is drawn. Of course a dog is 
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