THE AMATEUR TRAINER. 
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PART II. 
FIEED TKAIMNG. 
After having gone through the first part care¬ 
fully, not omitting any separate lesson, no matter 
how superfluous or palpable the same may have 
appeared, the dog is now ready to be taken afield— 
not, however, to be shot over in a true sense of the 
word, but to be introduced to real work, during 
which all former lessons are to be applied to the 
dog in a practical way. It is true that, after ab¬ 
solving the technicalities of the first part of this 
work, a dog should be capable of satisfactory work 
in a measure, but if work in a higher degree is de¬ 
sired, the instructions must be prolonged. The dog 
with the training of the first part is capable of 
making a good showing afield if handled by his 
trainer, who fully knows the extent to which the 
different acts may be exhibited to advantage. But 
if the dog will be placed under direction of another 
person, who is not a handler of experience, and is 
also not acquainted with the dog’s disposition, capa¬ 
bilities and peculiarities, etc., such second party will 
find himself at sea; the dog becomes bewildered, 
and is unfit even for the work he is well qualified 
to perform w r hile under guidance of his trainer. 
