338 BREAKING AND ENTERING. 



them, which they always are ready to do, especially if permitted 

 to chase or even to retrieve hares. There is no remedy for it, and 

 a potterer of this kind is utterly worthless and irreclaimable. 



Hunting too wide for close partridge-shooting may be easily 

 remedied by constantly keeping in the dog by the whistle and 

 hand ; and, if he has been properly taught to range at command, 

 little trouble is required in making him change from the wide 

 beat, necessary in countries where game is scarce, to the con- 

 fined and limited range of sixty yards, which is best where it 

 is thick on the ground. 



Chasing fur, and also running in to dead Urdu, are often most 

 unmanageable vices ; but either can generally be cured by patience 

 and severe treatment, aided if necessary by the check-cord, or 

 in very bad cases by the spike-collar in addition. When these 

 are used it is only necessary to work the dog with them on, the 

 cord either trailing loosely on the ground or held in an assistant's 

 hand. Then, the moment the dog runs in, check him severely, 

 and, if he is not very bold, the plain collar will suffice, as it may 

 be made by a sharp jerk to throw him back, to his great annoy- 

 ance ; but the spike-collar punishes far more, and if it is used will 

 soon give the dog cause to leave off his malpractices. 



BREAKING TO RETRIEVE. 



Retrieving, in my opinion, should be invariably committed 

 to a dog specially kept for that purpose ; but, as this is not the 

 universal practice, it will be necessary to say a few words on this 

 subject. When pointers or setters are broken to retrieve, in 

 addition to those cpialities peculiar to them they should always 

 be so much under command as to wait "down charge" until 

 they are ordered on by the words " Seek dead ;" when they at 



