3 22 BREAKING AND ENTERING. 



WORDS OF COMMAND USED TO THE POINTER AND SETTER. 



i. To avoid breaking fence — "Ware fence." 



2. To come back from cbasing cats, poultry, bares, &c. — " Ware 

 cbase.'' 



3. To come to heel and remain there — "To heel," or "Heel." 



4. To gallop forward — " Hold up." 



5. To lie down — "Down," or "Down charge." 



6. To abstain from taking food placed near, equally applied to 

 running in to birds — "Toho." 



When these orders are cheerfully and instantly -complied with 

 by the puppy, it will be time to take him into the field, but not 

 till then. Many breakers during this period accustom their dogs 

 to the report of the gun, by firing a pistol off occasionally while 

 they are a short distance off, and in a way so as not to alarm 

 them. This is all very well, and may prevent all danger of a 

 dog becoming " shy of the gun ; " but with . a well-bred puppy, 

 properly reared, and not confined too much so as to make him 

 shy in other respects, such a fault will seldom occur. Never- 

 theless, as it does sometimes show itself, from some cause or other, 

 the above precaution, as it costs little trouble or expense, is not 

 to be objected to. It is also advantageous to accustom the do^ to 

 drop when the pistol is discharged, and, if he is of high courage,*- 

 he may be drilled to this so effectually that he never forgets it. 

 By the aid of a " check cord," wherever the dog is when the 

 pistol is discharged, he is suddenly brought up and made to drop 

 with the command " Down charge - T " and in process of time he 

 associates one with the other, so that whenever he hears a gun he 

 drops in an instant. Timid dogs may, however, be made shy in 

 this way, and unless the puppy is evidently of high courage, it is 



