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Title: Breeding, training, management, diseases & c. of dogs:
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Butler, Francis, 1810-1874. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Dog. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Brooklyn, D. S. Holmes
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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tly obedient, as far as he hasbeen taught. We will now teach him, or rath-er let him show us how to find the game, ttc.By way of trial, suppose we get a live quail orpartridge, clip its wing, attach a string to itsleg and let it run a hundred yards or so indiflcrent directions, to test his nose, (a deadbird may be dragged along, if alive one cannotbe obtained). Select a good sized field, drag it,or let it run in Ibiir ditferent directions, set thedog on the scent, so that if he go wrong, you maydirect and encourage him to hunt r» the rightdirection. When you finish dragging, put thebird in a box and test the actions of your dog,making him* Steady, &c., as he approaches it.Where game is abundant, of course this shamhunt need not often be resorted to, although a fewminutes may occasionally be found for practiceat home, when there is no spare time even fora short shooting-trip. Down charge maybe taught to be obeyed by the discharge of thegun, if the report be often made to accompany
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