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beings. They would starve, if it came to that, for 
some one they love supremely. 
When Strongheart makes a mistake, I don’t rail 
at him or strike him. I know he meant to do it 
right. He just didn’t understand. When he sees, 
by my expression, that he has failed to satisfy me, 
his expression is almost tragic. It is up to me to 
show him where he was wrong. Kicking and cuss¬ 
ing wouldn’t explain it to him. He would be more 
confused than ever. Isn’t that human psychology, 
too? 
In those last sentences of Mr. Trimble’s 
you have, I believe, one of the real essen¬ 
tials for the right sort of results in any kind 
of work with a dog. Mr. Trimble says that, 
except when it is absolutely necessary to be 
otherwise, Strongheart is always with him. 
The more you are with your dog, the greater 
the companionship developed between you, 
the greater will be the understanding and 
the love, and the greater the understanding 
and love between you, just so much greater 
will be the results that the dog gives you in 
what you are anxious for him to do. The 
interesting thing, to me, about the foregoing 
quotations is that my manuscript thus far 
