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rage their hurrying. Never mind if they flush one bevy, and 
you lose one shot. Be steady, and punish, so that they will not 
do so again. 
When they point, flush your own bird, even if you get a worse 
shot at it than you would do by hieing on your dog. To do so 
will make him heedless and headstrong. 
If you kill, stand still, cry “ down-charge,” and load your 
gun. If the dogs run in, don’t run after them, it will only make 
them run the faster. Stand still, and cry “ down,” till you have 
done loading. Then go on deliberately, never heed the dead 
bird, which is probably half eaten by this time, but drag the 
offender back to the place whence he started, crying “ down- 
charge,” and lashing him all the way,—then hold him down, and 
flog him most severely. Make him lie still, without stirring, till you 
have brought the bird, and laid it close under his nose. Then 
make him pick it up, and give it you,—he will not run in many 
times, if so dealt withal. 
Break your dogs thus, or have them thus broken, and when 
they are broken, handle them thus in the kennel, and in the 
field, and my word on it, they will be, and continue good ones. 
I am induced, by some experiments, to qualify my opinions, as ex¬ 
pressed on page 340, in relation to the use of Indian meal as dog food, so 
far as to observe that the meal must be old, since, if new, it is too laxa¬ 
tive. Where oat-meal can be procured, I incline to the belief that the 
mixture of it with Indian meal, in equal proportions, will be found the 
best possible dog food. 
END OF VOLUME ONE. 
