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Boon be overcome; but it will be a bad sign if he 
crowds back into kennel and endeavors to conceal 
himself. Show some tempting morsels, but do not 
permit him to take anything unless he will come up 
boldly to reach for it; do not coax in the least, and 
leave him to fast another day. Do not come up to 
dog oftener than necessary in furnishing water, and 
refrain from speaking, apparently giving him no at¬ 
tention. The same procedure is repeated on the 
third day ; hunger may now drive the dog from his 
kennel the moment he sees the pan, well filled, 
being brought to him, and if he takes a little from 
the hand while the gun is being set upon the 
ground, raised up, laid over arm, to shoulder, etc., 
without flinching, then be is ripe for further opera¬ 
tion ; but should the dog merely take a piece of 
corn bread, bit of meat, etc., and instantly retreat 
into his kennel, then leave him without further pro¬ 
ceedings another day. On the fourth day a change 
will have come over him to such an extent that 
hunger will be more dominant than fear; if not —- 
well, then just let him meditate one more day. In 
the writer’s practice, a longer period than five days 
has not been required with any dog to make him 
mellow and ready for operation. 
The dog will now come up to the trainer, 
eagerly looking, pawing and squirming around for 
something to satisfy his ravenous hunger; he does 
not now mind seeing the gun handled with both 
hands while the tempting pan is set down just out 
