CHAPTER XIII. 
CONCLUSION, 
“Tae little handful of things that I know” 
have been pulled up in the field behind incom- 
parable dogs, made so by the same methods of 
teaching which I have suggested in the foregoing 
chapters. Long experience has taught me their 
value, and justified my recommending them to the 
reader. I trust that he will recognize their sim- 
plicity. 
All men are not equally endowed by Nature 
with the qualities essential to a successful trainer. 
Truth sustains the satirist who wrote that there 
are certain men who could never, train a dog 
with all the instruction and experience of a life- 
time; and there are others who cannot handle a 
dog without ruining it, even after it is trained. 
Some train their dogs in a way that is almost 
inexplicable; they themselves can scarcely tell 
you how they attain the desired result. Such 
men are invariably very quiet, unobtrusive, and 
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