UPLAND SHOOTING. 
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If hunted with knowing old dogs, puppies will soon come to 
depend on them entirely; will follow them, and watch their 
every motion, and never learning to beat their own ground, or 
find their own game, will content themselves with backing, in¬ 
stead of pointing, and will become timid, and ultimately useless. 
Hunting puppies, on the contrary, together, will tend to make 
them all wild and rash, and to induce their mutually learning 
the faults of all. 
On the whole, therefore, it is the better way to hunt young 
dogs singly during their first season, killing as many birds over 
them as possible ; and, at the beginning of the second year, re¬ 
membering that brace-hunting is the proper sphere of Pointers, 
or Setters, to introduce them to mates of their own ages, and 
thenceforth always to hunt, and, as much as you can, feed the 
same braces together. One brace of dogs, accustomed so to live 
and beat together, will do better work a-field, than three dogs 
of equal qualities, all working each “ on his own hook.” 
So much for the rules of dog breaking ! 
With regard to practice and management in the field, there is 
little or nothing to be said, beyond what I have already laid 
down , passim, under the heads of the various kinds of Upland 
shooting. 
Dogs should not be harassed by too many, and never by con¬ 
trary, orders. No fault should ever be passed over in silence, 
and very few will be committed. Punishment should be in¬ 
flicted as rarely as possible, but when it is inflicted, it should be 
done thoroughly and severely. 
Never holloa at a dog—never run after a dog, but either make 
him come back to you, or bide your time till he becomes tired 
and returns of his own accord, then punish for the double event 
When you enter a field, or covert, which you propose to beat 
bid your dogs “ hold up,” and waive them right and left. Turn 
them by a whistle, and waive them hither or thither. When 
they strike a bevy of Quail, or other game, never hurry after 
them, but make them go slow by the word “ steady.” If they 
are rash, be you deliberate. If you hurry on, you best encou- 
