Kunopaedia A practical essay on breaking or training the English spaniel or pointer.

290 Pages·1814·37.68 MB·English

by  Dobson, William

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KUNOPJEDIA.
A PRACTICAL ESSAY
ON
BREAKING OR TRAINING
THE
&pamel or pointer.
WITH
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ATTAINING
THE
ART OF SHOOTING FLYING
IN WHICH THE
LATTER IS REDUCED TO RULE,
AND
THE FORMER INCULCATED ON PRINCIPLE.
BY THE LATE
WILLIAMiDOBSON, ESQ.
iT
OF EDEN-HALL, CUMBERLAND.
LONDON:
fop <.OT)tt:tino$am, ogtoellStreet,
FOR THE EDITOR
;
AND SOLD BY J. CALLOW, CROWN COURT, SOHO; AND
WH1TTINGHAM ANDARLISS,56, PATERNOSTER
1814.
SF
31
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GIFT OP
PROFESS DUG. A, KOFOID
CONTENTS.
ESSAY ON BREAKING THE ENGLISH
SPANIEL,
&>c.
Page
INTRODUCTION *
. . .
Novitiate of the pupil, and prep.ara.tory.treatment by.3
...
the tutor . .
Prefatory breaking; n.ot a.pprov.ed .. ... 7
Preliminary introduction to game; how far expedient 9
Going on duty ... 10
Means of acquiring command . H
Throw off to hunt
Pupil kept upin form...Puzzle-peg . . . 12
.13
QUARTERING theground .
.14
Giving the rudiments .
How further managed . . -17
Form and mode of the evolution required . .
Its importance . . . . .
Diagram for the purpose of showing and of cor-
recting errors in beat IB
Method of acquiring a direction of the range . 21
Stubble and broken ground to be avoided, in
giving the first ideas of outline . - 21
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VI CONTENTS.
Page
Pupilfinds...Springs and chases , / . 27
Reclaiming from chase . . . . . 2<?
Escape during discipline, to be guarded against, as
mischievous in the extreme . . . 21)
Prudentialmaxim .f**^ . !./$}.'. . . .30
.31
Blunder up without finding...Treatment . .
Covey rattled up, and headlong chase...Delicacy of
.32
management necessary . . . .
.34
Whip described . . . . *
.35
Secret of making a dogstand . . . .
SHOT to the pupil's find...Management and mode of
advance . . v . .36
Birddown...Breaking in the tutor . . . . 37
DOWN CHARGE; The corner-stone of the author's
system, and the great principle of all refined
education " 38
. . ."g . _ i<:,)jt*9i ^
Method of creating it a-iffti to* : ^uv4-v
Cases varied, for the sake of more completely
enforcing it \ ' \ - '>, 40
Summary view of this duty...Compared with
inferior tactics % . . V'UHI . . 42
The formalities of correction to be strictly
adhered to ^ . . <--m,-..- *& . . 43
The transferable source of every other excellence 4(>
Lecture, never to be omitted . !m*i*<":m '.* 47
Navalanecdote . f>cftj{{: - rcfe*vb'; ; .ii
Bringing thegame, disapproved . -rma &
SEEKDEAD...Conduct towards the pupil ^^ . 51
.52
Legitimate approach, and final treatment . .
Footing out the game...The inestimable value of this
quality in the field, contrasted with troops of
parade and ignorance . . . %*? . 53