PREFACE NO PREFACE.
(FOR FIRST EDITION.)
My respected Publisher has suggested that a Preface may be expected. His opinion on such a subject ought to be law; but as I fear my readers may think that I have already sufficiently bored them, I will beg them, in Irish fashion, to refer any formalist, who considers a Preface necessary, to the conclusion of the work, where a statement will be found of the motive which induced me to write.
W. N. H.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. PAGE
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. QUALIFICATIONS, IN BREAKER,--IN DOG 1
CHAPTER II.
INITIATORY LESSONS WITHIN DOORS. SHOOTING PONIES 9
CHAPTER III.
INITIATORY LESSONS CONTINUED. SPANIELS 20
CHAPTER IV.
LESSONS IN "FETCHING."--RETRIEVERS 57
CHAPTER V.
INITIATORY LESSONS OUT OF DOORS.--TRICKS 76
CHAPTER VI.
FIRST LESSON IN SEPTEMBER COMMENCED. RANGING 99
CHAPTER VII.
FIRST LESSONS IN SEPTEMBER CONTINUED. CAUTION.--NATURE'S MYSTERIOUS INFLUENCES 111
CHAPTER VIII.
FIRST LESSON IN SEPTEMBER CONTINUED. CUNNING OF AGE.--RANGE OF FROM TWO TO SIX DOGS 129
CHAPTER IX.
FIRST LESSON IN SEPTEMBER CONTINUED. "POINT" NOT RELINQUISHED FOR "DOWN CHARGE" 150
CHAPTER X.
FIRST LESSON IN SEPTEMBER CONTINUED. ASSISTANT.--VERMIN 165
CHAPTER XI.
FIRST LESSON IN SEPTEMBER CONCLUDED. BAR.--LEG STRAP. --SPIKE-COLLAR 176