73 THE AMATEUR TRAINER, 
mussed without proceeding further. It may follow 
that the dog will refuse to take up the next bird; 
in that case the cord and collar again come into use 
in former manner to force obedience. Care must be 
taken in this particular, and the fault corrected in¬ 
stantly ; if passed unchecked, the same will be 
aggravated continually, culminating in chewing, 
and finally swallowing the bird entire. In the lat¬ 
ter case the dog must be broken from retrieving at 
all, and begun with anew in manner as before. 
THE WINGED BIRD. 
A very common fault with amateurs is the greed 
for game , losing sight of the object most important 
— the dog’s training. If a bird has been winged 
only (every sportsman can judge this by the man¬ 
ner in which the bird falls) it will be best not to 
attempt to have it retrieved at once, the principal 
aim now being to make the dog quite steady at 
point, to wing and shot. A winged bird usually 
proves a runner, and if the dog is ordered to 
“fetch” he will take up the trail and follow till the 
game is run down, exciting the dog to a final spring 
and catch. A dog more advanced should do this 
very thing, but the young dog becomes wild, dis¬ 
obedient, and deems it his duty to henceforth catch 
every bird running he comes across. Therefore omit 
the retrieving directly, and proceed thus : The bird 
falls winged, dog drops to shot, where he is to re¬ 
main quiet a few moments, is then ordered, “Up 
