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which occasions its adoption. Nevertheless, when it is left off, 

 the old tendency to stoop most frequently reappears, more or 

 less, and the sportsman finds that all his care has been thrown 

 away. Still I have known it cure this fault, and if it fails I 

 have no other suggestion to offer but sixpennyworth of cord or 

 " a hole in the water." If used at all, it must be kept on for 

 many days together, that is to say, while at work, and when 

 left off it should be occasionally reapplied if the dog shows the 



slightest tendency to put his nose down, or dwell on the scent 

 where birds have been rising or have "gone away." I may 

 here remark that " false pointing " is altogether different from 

 this low hunting, though often coupled with it; but this we 

 shall come to after describing the nature of, and mode of teach- 

 ing, that part of the pointer's education. There is a wonderful 

 faculty in some breeds of feeling a body-scent at long distances, 

 while they have no perception of the foot-scent, and this is the 

 quality which ought to be most highly prized in the pointer 



