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elinations. "When Fanny was young and a pretty 

 good dog, retrieving grouse very nicely, on one 

 hot morning she refused to find and bring in a 

 grouse I had shot. She ran for the com, where- 

 upon I fired over her and stung her with two or 

 three straggling shot. She kept on, however, and 

 bolted for home, some four miles distant. I knew 1 

 that would never do, and, jumping into my buggy, 

 I drove off and got there before she did. When 

 she came jogging on, she seemed astounded at see- 

 ing mo there. I gave her a few cuts with the 

 whip, and took her back to the place where she 

 had misbehaved, upon which she found the dead 

 bird, and brought it in. If I had passed that over, 

 she would have gone off again on some day when 

 she was more inclined for rest than work. When 

 a dog runs off instead of doing what he is required 

 to do, bring him back to the same place, no mat- 

 ter at what trouble, and compel him to perform it. 

 If young sportsmen neglect this, and go on their 

 way rather than lose a little time, their dogs will 

 find it out, and do pretty much as they like. It is 

 this which causes many dogs which have really 

 been well broken to turn out to be rascals in 

 their owners' hands. 



Cross-bred dogs are seldom good beyond the 



