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This being repeated a few times lie learns to ad- 

 vance or come to us on being j^wZ/e^? forivard at a 

 given voice signal and afterwards at this voice signal 

 alone without being pulled. 



If whilst inviting him to advance by intermit- 

 tent pulls at the lounges we turn towards him and 

 we go backwards receding from him, his seeing 

 us recede from him by walking backward, invites 

 him still more to come forward. He will not be 

 thus incited to advance if the person he sees in 

 front has previously ill-treated him while turned 

 towards him, because the position of thus facing 

 him is associated with the infliction of punishment. 



It is understood that the same sound of the 

 voice must always be employed for the same action 

 of advancing. After a few repetitions he advances 

 at the voice signal alone without being pulled and 

 without threat of the whip behind because he re- 

 members these aids, and if by chance he does not 

 remember them, he is again pulled forward and 

 menaced anew with the whip behind. 



The succession of these proceedings is in accor- 

 dance with the rules stated. Drawing him forward 



