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marked to a square yard, get away, owing to the conviction of 
the pursuers that he was dead, after the ground had been beaten 
to and fro by a brace of capital dogs, and trampled all over by 
as many men ; and I should like to know what can be more pro- 
voking than such a consummation. 
For Snipe shooting, the most effective party that I can con¬ 
ceive, will consist of two men, provided that they are sufficiently 
well acquainted each with the other’s style of shooting and hunt¬ 
ing dogs, to work well together,—and two dogs, both belonging 
to and hunted by one man. In this case the sportsman can 
hunt their dogs alternate days, he whose turn it is not to hunt, 
carefully abstaining from uttering a word, or making a gesture 
to the dogs. 
This, of course, can be only done by two old sportsmen, who 
know each the other’s style of sporting, and will consent to 
give and take mutually something. 
The advantage gained is this, that a brace of dogs, used to 
one another, knowing one another’s ways, and accustomed to 
work and live together, will do twice as much , and five times 
as good work, as a pair of strangers, jealous, and very likely 
broken in to different styles of action. 
No two men hunt their dogs precisely alike,—and, conse¬ 
quently, no two strange dogs, hunted by two different strange 
men, can or will work harmoniously together. If each man in¬ 
sists on hunting his own dog each day, the men will have bet¬ 
ter sport by hunting singly. But, in my opinion, one man 
wants a brace of dogs in the field,—and yet a brace of dogs are 
enough for two men. When the number exceeds two guns, 
for Snipe shooting, by far the better way is to divide into two 
parties, beating, if you please, in sight each of the other, and so 
driving the birds backward and forward,—but, not sufficiently 
near to allow the dogs to mix, or become jealous. 
The difficulty of getting dogs accustomed to different styles 
of sporting, to work well together, will be evident at once, if 
we consider that one sportsman trains his dog to drop to shot, 
where he is when the shot is fired ; another, to come in beforo 
