Chapter 8

FIRST LESSON IN AUTUMN CONTINUED. CUNNING OF AGE--RANGE OF FROM TWO TO SIX DOGS.

153. Your Dog not to "break fence;" how taught; Birds often sprung while you are scrambling over hedge.

154. Turning one's back upon a Dog to bring him away; stooping down, &c., to make him hunt close.

155. Dog, when fatigued, not to be hunted; leads to false points.

156. Sent home, brushed, and allowed a warm berth; not to follow all day at "heel."

157 to 159. Beat of two Dogs, how regulated.

160. Whatever number hunted, all should look to the Gun for orders.

161. Mr. Herbert's opinion in his "Field Sports in United States."

162, 163. Beat of three Dogs.

164. Of four Dogs.

165 to 167. Of five or six Dogs.

168. Great precision impracticable, but the necessity of a system maintained; System particularly essential where Game is scarce; Dogs to be brigaded, not to be employed as a pack.

169. When each keeper hunts a brace.

170. A brigade of fine rangers worth from fifty to sixty guineas a brace.

171. Fastest walkers do not necessarily beat most country.

172. Nor do always the fastest Dogs.

173. How slow Dogs may hunt more ground than faster.