266 ° MANUAL FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 
more injury than weeks of breaking and flogging will 
repair. 
2d. Never permit or encourage them at one time to do 
that for which you rate or punish them at another. Many 
persons do this; particularly in hieing them after running 
birds, without considering the mischief they are doing. 
3d. Never shoot with any person who will not shoot 
to rule, as to walking steadily and stopping to load, &c. ; 
much more, never hunt your dogs in company with riotous 
brutes, which will neither back, stand, nor down charge. 
Example is notoriously far more effective than precept, 
and nothing is unlearned so easily as discipline, or learned 
so easily as riot. 
4th. Never run or hurry up to your dogs when point- 
ing. You increase their rashness and eagerness by doing 
so tenfold, and tempt them to rush. If the birds are run- 
ning before them, and they are roading too fast, by hurry- 
ing after them you not only excite them yet farther, but 
run much risk of flushing the birds by the noise you make. 
Keep your usual pace, or even retard it, advancing so that 
the dogs can see your motions, with your right hand 
raised, reiterating the words “ Care! Care!” or “ Steady ! 
Steady!” in a calm, slow tone, always using the same and 
but one word of command, for each case. 
5th. When the birds rise, whether you fire or not, in- 
variably make your dogs “down!” or « drop!” for a 
second or two. It tends to make them steady; it gives 
you.time to mark; and if there be a last hard-lying bird 
or pair of birds, it increases your chance of a shot. 
6th. If your dog rush in and chase a hare, or even 
