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bushes and make him hunt it up, saying, “Dead 
bird, fetch.” After he has learned to return this 
object and likes to do it, kill a bird of the kind 
which you expect to shoot, and teach him to return 
it about the yard. If he refuses to pick it up check 
him with the cord and put it into his mouth and 
make him do it. If he attempts to chew or mangle 
the bird, pinch his lips severely, until he mouths it 
tenderly. Do not try to make him retrieve in the 
field until all of this is taught. When birds are 
flushed or the gun is fired, he must be made to drop 
and must stay down until ordered to retrieve, or 
to go on. This is the most important of all as a 
dog which runs in is worse than no dog at all. 
This pup is young and if he is properly controlled 
now he will make a great dog. 
Hunting dogs should be kept reasonably thin. 
They should be fed once a day, in the evening after 
the day’s work is over, all they will eat without urg¬ 
ing. The best food for them is mush made from 
the broth in which bones and meat have been boiled, 
well salted. Stir corn meal into the broth until it is 
as thick as possible and cook thoroughly. Feed cold. 
In summer coarse wheat flour is better than com 
meal, as it is not so heating. 
Going back again now to the very impor¬ 
tant subject of gun-shyness I will do so with 
