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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! you here, and in this disguise, my old friend, he said, laughing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you caught at last, then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am in no disguise, but in the habit of the order to which I belong, Senhor Antonio," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall be ready to follow you when I have taken farewell of my friends," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fear not, I come to set you at liberty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stay, he answered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Should better ti...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Farewell, my dear Count, whispered the Friar, as they were about to enter into a more public part of the prison;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I may as well not be seen with you, for I must take care of my character, you know. May Heaven bless you! and he gave Luis ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alas! he answered, after expressing his gratitude," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It cannot be helped, Luis, said the latter;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That plan will never do, exclaimed Luis:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see how it...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told him the whole story, how the fidalgo had shut up his daughter in a convent, and how you wished to release her: so, as he hates the system of convents, and, I verily believe, would like to thwart what he imagines the fidalgo's wishes, he has given you a passport, and an or...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pedro! he exclaimed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fear me not, my dear master, I will follow wherever you lead, answered Pedro, with enthusiasm; and away the two horsemen galloped; and before the sun rose, Lisbon was many leagues behind them. So well did the horses...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not a moment is to be lost, Luis, he exclaimed, pointing to his boat, a fast pulling, six-oared gig." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Up that way, and then up a flight of steep steps, you will reach the church--the ceremony has begun, but cannot have concluded." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is mine! he exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are base forgeries, he heard the voice of Fre Alfonzo exclaim, as he stood in advance of the rest." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Seize the sacrilegious wretch! The holy Inquisition must be ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The only safe plan, said the Captain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have the Minister's authority, her's you will soon get, and her father can give his when you return; if not, you must do without it. Give way, my men!" }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And upon whom does suspicion rest?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot, Miss Axtell." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain T----r has all his life been a most enthusiastic sportsman, but never broke a dog, until a year ago, when he happened to come across the Major-General's work on 'Dog-breaking.' Since then he has trained two _entirely_ on the system laid down in the book. People say they ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Emperor of Sportsmen, writes to me, (and kindly permits me to quote his words)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I perfectly agree with you in everything you have said, and I think your work should be preached in a series of lectures to every dog-breaker in the profess...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "FETCHING." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "POINT NOT RELINQUISHED FOR" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "DOWN CHARGE" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BACKING" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "HALF-WAY HOUSE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BACKING" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BEAT." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "STIFF BY THE TAINTED GALE WITH OPEN NOSE OUTSTRETCHED AND FINELY SENSIBLE" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "SMALL, ACTIVE POINTER." }, { "from": "human", "value": "SHORT-LEGGED STRONG-LOINED SUSSEX SPANIEL." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "DUKE OF ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "EXAMPLE BETTER THAN PRECEPT" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Toho, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Down charge, [3] usually, too, as if to make matters worse, hallooed to the extent of the breaker's lungs. There are anglers who recommend silence as conducive to success, and there are no experienced sportsmen who do not ackno...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is all this, which sounds so well in theory, to be obtained in practice without great severity?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dead --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Toho --" }, { "from": "human", "value": "On --20. All Commands and Whistling to be given in a low Tone.--23 to 26. Lessons in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drop --Head between fore-legs--Setters crouch m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Toho? Why should he not conceive it to be a word of encouragement to rush in upon the game, as he probably longs to do; especially if it should be a partridge fluttering before him, in the sagacious endeavour to lure him from her brood, or a hare enticingly cantering off from un...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "LEAD. --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "TOHO. --" }, { "from": "human", "value": "ON." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dead, dead. Do this several times, chucking it into different parts of the room, and let him eat what he finds. Then throw a p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Toho, to prevent his seizing the toast (or meat), until you say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On, or give him the forward signal. When he gets yet more perfect in his lesson, raising your right arm only, without employing your voice, will be sufficient, especially i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DROP. --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "DOWN CHARGE." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Drop, when so holding up the left hand, and press him down with the other until he assumes a crouching position. If you study beauty of attitude, his fore-legs ought to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Drop, and a wholesome dread of the attendant penalty, will be advantageous. Go up to him,--pat him,--and lead him for some paces," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as they say in the cavalry. Dogs which are over-headstrong and resolute, can only be brought under satisfa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "however hungry he may be, before he is permitted to taste his food, it is reasonable to think he will remain at the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "yet more patiently before he is allowed to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The confidence of the one, will ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(as he expressed it) a heavy weight to which a line from the curb-bit was attached. The weight was carried in one of the holster pipes,--in the other was invariably stowed away a liberal allowance of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Grog and Prog." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dead. He will connect the word with the idea that there is something very desirable concealed near him, and he will be all impatience to be off and find it; _but make him first come to you_, (for reason, see 269.)--Keep him half a minute.--Then say" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Drop, if you are accustomed to recompense him for good behaviour, you can employ this signal to make him rise and run towards you for his reward, (and, according to my judgment, he should always join you after the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "CARE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Care," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Up, as a command that he is to sniff high in the air to find the hidden bread or meat, lying, say on a shelf, or on the back of a sofa. He will, comparatively speaking, be some time in acquiring a knowledge of the meaning of the word, and many would probably term it an over-refi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "UP." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A backward low wave of the right hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "HEEL. --" }, { "from": "human", "value": "GONE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heel, and a backward low wave of the right hand and arm to the rear, (the reverse of the under...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gone, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Away, or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Flown, [12] (select which you will, but do not ring the changes,) you may now rub a piece of meat (if you have no one but your servant to scold you) in some place where the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Toho it, and then let the dog you name take it. In the same way you can let each alternately search for a hidden piece, after both have come up to you, on your saying" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dead. I would also advise you to accustom each dog to" }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but most breakers make their spaniels come into" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or rather gather close around them, (by the word" }, { "from": "human", "value": ") whenever a gun is discharged. This plan, though so injudicious in the case of pointers or se...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(23 to 26) as the main-spring of his educational system. He will teach his young spaniels to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(34, 35, 43) where directed by signs of the hand. He will instruct them in" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All the Clumbers dropped instantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know it, answered the man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The difficulty is to make them hunt far enough, and yet not too far. At least one of the number should retrieve well. If they give tongue, it ought to be in an intelligible manner; softly, when they first come on the haunt of a cock, but making the cover ring again with their jo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Excursions in Albania." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "are nearly useless in the open when game is scarce. You will be prepared, when first you hunt a setter in cover, to sacrifice much of your sport. There must be noise; for it is essential to make him at once thoroughly understand the very different" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(27), but to the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our good Irish friend." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Flint drew for some time towards the river, and brought the sportsmen to the stump of an old tree. They could see nothing, and thought the dog must be standing at a moorhen; but on one of the beaters trying with a stick, out flew a mallard like a shot from a gun. As Mr. L----g l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "FETCHING." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "recommended.--97. Dog not taught to retrieve bringing dead Bird he had found.--98. Taught to deliver into your hand; never pick up a Bird yourself; Dog which often lost winged Birds she had lifted.--99. Colonel T----y.--100. R...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he will accurately retrace your footsteps for miles and miles, diligently hunting every yard of the ground. Of course, the distances to which you at first send your dog will be inconsiderable, and you should carefully avoid persevering too long at a time, lest he get sick of the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Venus" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "with" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fetch it, Fan; fetch it. The bitch seemed for a moment puzzled at such an unusual proceeding, and looked round, inquisitively, once or twice, as if to say," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What can you mean?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dove, a white setter, belonging to a near relation of mine, (the left-hand dog in the engraving illustrating 540, is considered extremely like her,) did, spontaneously, that which" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fan only consented to do after much entreaty. My relatio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A burnt child, says the old adage," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "FETCH." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and takes pleasure in it, will make him bring a bunch of keys. There are few things a dog is less willing to lift. Most probably they gave him some severe rebuffs when first heedlessly snatching at them; and the caution thereby induced tends to give him a careful, tender mouth. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "FETCH." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "by shaking your glove (or anything soft) at him, and encouraging him to seize and drag it from you. Then throw it a yard or two off, gradually increasing the distance, and the moment he delivers it to you, give him something pala...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "CARRY." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as it is often termed) a rabbit in high stubble, one (or both, if a strong buck) of whose hind-legs you will have previously bandaged in the manner described in 60. Be careful not to let him see you turn it out, lest he watch your p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DOWN CHARGE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Unquestionably some retrievers have so good a nose, that the delay would not lead to their missing any wounded game, however slightly struck (123); and the delay has this great advantage, that it helps to keep the retriever...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "rather lose any bird, however valuable, so long as your retriever remains young, than put him on the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "a second before you have reloaded. Undoubtedly it ought to be taught to every dog broken for sale, as the purchaser can always dispense...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ben had numerous excellent qualities, but his greatest admirers, and few dogs had so many, were obliged to admit, that he was of a quarrelsome, pugnacious disposition. It unluckily happened that he had taken a great dislike to a large cubbish young retriever belonging to the afo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ben. I say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "because he died prematurely from a swelling under the throat which might, in all probability, have been cured, had a long seton been run through it, or rather under the adjacent skin,--a mode of treatment attended with the ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(23, 25, 26)--to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(107 to 109)--and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Instruction in quartering; hunted where least likely to find Game; taught while young. In note, Bitch shot over when seven months old.--133. If unreasonably long before taking to hunting, the remedy.--134. Utility of Initiatory Lessons; taught without punishing.--135. Self-confi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give him an inch, and he will take an ell." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And the more timid he is, the more you must let him chase, and amuse himself as his fancy dictates. When you see that he is really occupying himself with more serious hunting, _eagerly_ searching for small birds, especially larks, you must begin instructing him how to quarter hi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(to which he will sensitively attach a feeling of shame), and the encouraging word" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The extremities of the gun caught the side-posts." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Toho," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drop," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On, (the short word for" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beckon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heel," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fence means that he is not to leave the place where you are. After being so checked a few times when he is endeavouring to quit the field, he will understand the word to be an order not to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Find, or" }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dead (which it would be well to accompany with the signal to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heel ) means that there is something not far off, which he would have great satisfaction in finding. On hearing it, he will come to you, and await your signals instructing him...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Up" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Away (or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gone, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Flown" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ware (pronounced" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "War ) is a general order to desist from whatever he may be doing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bad and the encouraging word" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come to heel," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ware breaking fence," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have a care?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Toho is the word employed to tell a dog to point, the old rule is clearly a judicious one, never to call him" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ponto," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sancho, or by any name ending in" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DROP BETTER THAN" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "DOWN." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Drop, instead of the usual word" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Down," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dash chose to lead; for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dash soon found out that he might take what liberties he pleased with" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Elia." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Beg; beg, sir, beg;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Carrying is a pretty--occasionally, as we see, a useful--trick, but it does not further any sporting object." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Carrying and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How badly my hat has been brushed!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell John to bring my sword and cap, or" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "True, the man replied," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dog-Breaking," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "paired birds in Spring; tends to blinking.--171. Better not to see Game until shot over; taken out alone on a fine day in September.--172. Perpetually whistling to animate dogs, injudicious.--173. Beat largest Fields, and where least likely to find Game.--174. Commence from leew...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BREAKING" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as some term it) if their ages permit it, on favourable days in Spring, when the partridges have paired.[25] He gets plenty of points, and the birds lie well. But I cannot believe it is the best way to attain great excellence, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to tempt you to let him out of leading-strings. If he be once permitted to imagine that he has a discretionary power respecting the best places to hunt, and the direction and length of his beats, you will find it extremely difficult to get him again well in hand. On the moors hi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "if he will not obey your raised left arm)--go up to him,--take hold of his collar, and rate him, saying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bad, bad," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chickens.--195. Instance of a Dog's running to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "but not" }, { "from": "human", "value": "on finding himself close to birds.--196. A Dog's Nose cannot be improved, but his _caution_ can, which is nearly tantamount; how effecte...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A _cautious_ dog ! Can there well be a more flattering epithet?[29] Such a dog can hardly travel too fast[30] in a tolerably open country, where there is not a superabundance of game, _if_ he really hunt with an inquiring nose;--but to his master what an all-important" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Toho, or making the signal, you will gradually teach him to look out for the faintest indication of a scent, and _point the instant he winds it_, instead of heedlessly hunting on until he meets a more exciting effluvia. (See 259 to 261, also 329.) If from a want of animation in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "_Whisper_ to him" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Care, and let him see by your light, slow tread your anxiety not to alarm the game. If he has never shown any symptoms of blinking, you may, a few times, thus spring the birds yourself while you keep him close to you. O...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He rolled to the bottom of the bank, and there lay motionless on his back." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "GROUSE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I bred from her, but her offspring were not worth their salt, although their father was a good dog, and had seen some service in Norfolk turnips." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd ride many a mile, and pay my own pikes, to see such an animal; but," }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grouse's exquisite sense of smell made her often imagine the possible vicinity of game from the very faintest indications,--that her sagacity led her not to abandon hastily such tokens, however feeble, but rather to seek patiently for a confirmation or disproval of her surmises,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cameleon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Triton, however, was so attached to his old roving habits, that whenever the cutter went into port he would invariably swim ashore of his own accord, and remain away for several days, always managing, however, to return on boa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Triton" } ]