116 THE AMATEUR TRAINER, 
cuffed and kicked about at the slightest provoca¬ 
tion if things are not conducive to filling the game- 
bag. This hunter is after meat , training of the dog 
being quite secondary, even if he should have a con¬ 
ception of the requirements and the tact and 
patience to inculcate the same. A dog turned out 
by this class of trainers may, in time, become a good 
meat getter , but will be devoid of all refinement, 
hunting to suit himself entirely, chewing the shot 
birds into mince meat, and considering the whole 
proceeding a race for the bird only, eating the same 
completely if perchance he gets to it first. It is 
also quite uncertain whether the money expended 
for the training of a dog will be well invested, both 
as to the degree of education obtained through 
many so-called professional dog trainers and the 
safety of the dog itself. 
The appended clipping from the American Field , 
date of July 22, 1893, communicated by the vener¬ 
able contributor to said journal—“Old Dominion” 
— speaks volumes on the subject to which further 
comment is unnecessary: 
“In reading the account in last week’s American 
Field of the awfully brutal treatment of a lot of 
dogs, intrusted to McLin for training reminds me 
that the case can be duplicated here, in my own 
county, with the exception of the conflagration at 
the kennels, and the few remaining living dogs. 
This man had converted his kennels into a regular 
charnel house, from which dead and putrid dogs 
were regularly hauled out upon the commons, and 
