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[ { "from": "human", "value": "how taught; birds often sprung while you are scrambling over hedge.--223. Turning one's back upon a dog to bring him away; stooping down, &c. to make him hunt close.--224. Dog, when fatigued, not to be hunted; leads to false points.--225. Sent home, brushed, and allowed a warm b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BREAKING FENCE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or get out of your sight. If he be a small, active pointer or setter he may be out of sight before you are aware of it. Be on the watch to whistle or call out" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fence, the insta...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Small, active Pointer." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "one of these knowing aged patriarchs, that you become aware of the great value of experience in a dog. You may have seen a young one bewildered in the devious intricacies of the broken hags, sought as a refuge by an old cock-grouse, and have probably imagined that the youngster ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "FALLS" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Short-legged, strong-loined, Sussex Spaniel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dash on the scent, K----g's eyes rested on one of the grips just spoken of: it ran close to where the bird had fallen, and the thought struck him that possibly the cunning creature might have...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dash plays so conspicuous a part in the foregoing history, it appears right that a few words should be given to describe him. He is a low, strong-limbed, broad-backed nearly thorough-bred Sussex spaniel, with an extremely intelligent-looking head, but a sadly mean stern. His col...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to his Grace" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Duke of Gordon's fine breed of Black Setters." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is wonderful how easily dogs which are always shot over by the same man--he being one who knows his business--will learn to cross and re-quarter their ground, turning to the slightest whistle, and following the least gesture of the hand. I have seen old dogs turn their heads ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "both at the living and the dead;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and were broken from" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jem," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Beau, and" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "POINT NOT RELINQUISHED FOR" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "DOWN CHARGE." }, { "from": "human", "value": "far off--Pointer procuring shots at black game, but raising Grouse.--263. Patience enjoined--Not to part as enemies.--264. The first good point--Remain...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Toho when first you perceived his stern begin feathering, and thence judged that his olfactory nerves were rejoicing in the luxurious taint of game. Hollo out" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drop most energetically. If he does not immediately lie down, crack your whip...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as steady as a rock by the hour together. Supposing, however, that the birds are in an unfriendly distant mood, and not willing to remain on these neighbourly terms," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "on hearing the report of your gun. Do not hurry your loading:--indeed, be unnecessarily long, with the view of making him at all such times patient and steady. If, in spite of all your calls and signals, he gives chase to the sprung birds, make him" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is only a natural pause (prolonged by art) to determine exactly where the game is lying, preparatory to rushing forward to seize, it would be unreasonable to expect him willingly to make a second point at game he has not only found but mouthed:--the evil, however, does not rest ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HEEL." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dead, whether you choose to continue using it immediately after loading, or, as I have recommended (XI. of 141), _after a time_ omit it, and merely let the signal to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "As a dog generally ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "immediately after loading, especially if the birds are lying well. Mark accurately the spot where your victim lies, and closely hunt for others, endeavouring to instil great caution into the dog, much in the manner (being guided by his disposition and character) described in 196...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dead, [49] in a low tone of voice, on which the dog would _go up to him_; and then his master, without stirring from the spot where he had fired, directed him by signals to the place where the bird fell, to reach which the dog often had to swim the stream. His master then said" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heading Dog at his point--not practised too often--Dog to acquire a knowledge of his distance from Game.--286. Beautiful instance of Pointer correcting his Distance.--287. Constantly" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heading Dog may make him too immoveable.--288. A faul...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get near the dog. Your fist clenched,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seize the rope. Your fist shaken,--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jerk the cord. Your hand spread open,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let go the cord." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There really is game ahead," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lifting a Dog, when recommended." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Footing a scent. In Note, speed of Red-legged Partridge.--311. Evil of a Young Sportsman always thinking his birds killed outright; often calls away Dog improperly.--312. Loss of dead bird discouraging t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Toho. Afterwards endeavour to make him aware of the haunt by encouraging him to sniff at the ground that the birds have just left. The next time watch very carefully for the _slightest_ indication of his feathering and then instantly call out" }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but merely to the spot from which he had made his unlawful rush. If the bird had been very active, it would have been far better to have fired at it a second time (while it was running), than to have incurred the risk of making your dog unsteady by a wild pursuit. Suppose that i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and the danger is, that in allowing him to do so you may create in him the evil habit of hunting with his nose close to the ground, which is above all things to be deprecated. You have another mode--you can" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "must be often resorted to, that he may learn unhesitatingly to distinguish the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "from the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and how to push an old cock-grouse, or to flush a pheasant running through cover, or the red-legged, I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I spoke from personal experience, and from a vivid recollection of errors committed in my novitiate. A young hand is too apt to imagine that every bird which falls to his gun is killed outright, and lying dead on the spot where it fell. He will, therefore, often impatiently, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "NOSE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that many first-rate dogs have never been so indulged. It is certain that they would not have been worse if they had; and many a dog, that would otherwise have been extremely slack, has been incited to hunt with eagerness from having been so rewarded. There are dogs who, from ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The pleasantest imaginable. One day we killed forty-six brace, and bagged every feather. Indeed, F----n never loses a bird. I have actually known him, when his dogs were young, spend a full half hour in hunting for a dead bird; nothing would induce him to give up. The consequenc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But if, instead of waiting to load, I had gone after the winged bird just as it fell, when first I saw it start off running, the evil you have now spoken of (312) could not have occurred, for there would have but been little risk of losing it. Probably not, but you would have al...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is really surprising. A relative of mine had an English pointer which was so devoted to hunting for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "birds, that she was almost unequalled in" }, { "from": "human", "value": "though in other respects possessed of very ordinar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rose" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "but, in spite of all your calls and signals, rushes forward, yet yields to your menaces and halts in mid-career. It is well--your course is clear; you have to lug him back, and threaten, and lecture him. But should he not check him...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get up to him at once. Probably he will relinquish his grip of the bird; if not, make him give it up to you, but do not pull it from him: that would only increase the temptation to tear it. Lay it on the ground. Then drag him back to the spot from which he rushed; there make him...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Consider coolly whether you are flagellating a thick-coated dog, or one with a skin not much coarser than your own. Pause between each cut; and that he may comprehend why he is punished, call out several times, but not loudly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Toho--bad...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us couple up all the dogs excepting Old Don; the veteran's experience having shown him, that the only effect of his thundering through them would be to scare every bird and make it rise out of shot. _You_, on the contrary, when your pupil is well confirmed in his range, and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "GONE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gone (or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Flown ). Instead of being perplexed, he will then comprehend you. Should you, therefore, during the first few days of hunting him, see birds make off, in lieu of taking him to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Drop to the extent of your voice,--raise your hand,--crack your whip,--do all you can to prevent his pursuing. Of course you will not move an inch. Should he commence running, thunder out" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No," }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain's" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "when he winds birds. A bad nose may lead to a dog's running up birds from not noticing them, but it cannot _naturally_ induce him to run away from them. Possibly he may be worthless from a deficiency in his olfactory powers; but it is hard to conceive how these powers can be imp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "should stand wholly by sight,--just the reverse of pointing. Your dog's nose ought to have nothing to do with backing. If you permit it, he will get the abominable habit of creeping up to his companions in the manner just described (354), when he observes them to be winding bird...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "attends to the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or continues to back as long as the other dog remains at his point. It appears, however, best, that he should" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or in any way divert his attention from his own birds. He ought to remain immoveable as a statue. Some dogs, whose high courage has not been damped by over-correction, will do this from their own sagacity; but to enable you to _teach_ them to behave thus steadily, game should be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "broken young ones in the rear would do nothing but" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What can they know of judicious quartering? Of obeying the signals of the hand? Of gradually drawing upon the faintest token of a scent ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He did not carry his head well." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Steadily pointing." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Make him, (your pupil,)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Many breakers seem not to consider, or, at least, seem not to be sufficiently influenced by the consideration, that it is companionship with us, _through successive generations_, which alone has led to the dog's ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hie off to the Holmes, or," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hie off to Melrose," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ware or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sheep." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ware or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sheep." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lion" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lion" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lion's, and then he laid the two helpless animals nearly side by side. With his driving-whip he belaboured" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lion" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ware fowl," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fowl--fowl--fowl." }, { "from": "human", "value": "HALF-WAY HOUSE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Beckford's opinion.--414." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Munito selecting cards.--415. Sh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack, but the gentleman) would not have bagged more birds, and have had to walk over less ground, had he possessed as good an animal as that which helped to destroy the Fort Adjutant's preserve. And do you think that our friend with the barnacles, who was in no way of a misanthr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An experienced old dog would rarely, however, even when beating down wind, pass by many birds without noticing them:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, George, I fear you don't find much game." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No-o, sir, no--nŏt mutch. 'A' been thruff (through) t' covers, and seen some auld budds--and, please, sir, I'd loike to shūt 'em." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Shoot them! Th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May be ye'll think the place negleckit-like, but I'm no able to look after the wark noo." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep a good heart, said Mr. W----n;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ye may weel think that, replied the farmer, adding in a sort of ch...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is your opinion, I find, that a gentleman might make the best huntsman. I have no doubt that he would, if he chose the trouble of it. I do not think there is any profession, trade, or occupation, in which a good education would not be of service; and hunting, notwithstanding ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Munito," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fairy, ring the bell. The little dog had no previous training, but she had been observant, and was imitative. She immediately sprung at the bell rope, and pulled it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fairy, indeed, unfortunately pulled with great violence--the rope came...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My setter was immediately declared 'Keeper of the Keys,' and forthwith invested with all the rights of office,--nor was this confidence misplaced. He would never give up his charge to any one but to my uncle or myself; and always seemed fully sensible of the dignity and responsi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Taffy, give so-and-so a grip, the dog would to a certainty take hold of the right person." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Harder, Taffy,--give a harder grip; the dog would bite more firmly. At the third order," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Harder, my bo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From Japan." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never knew the dog to thieve before. Ere the day had fully dawned, they were again hunting the wood; but they could discover no trace of their child. At breakfast-time the dog, as on the preceding evening, purloined a piece of bread. The man was about to strike the depredator,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Muta leading him to Musk Bull.--489. His Sketch of the Scene.--490. Lord M----f; the dogs" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Captain and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Suwarrow. --491. Dot-and-go-one, with his old Pointer.--492. How fairly done by" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely you will not attack the desperate brute that lately killed those villagers and the two letter-carriers? The sportsmen modestly replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I cannot say, sir; perhaps I may." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rogue" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rogue" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "who had slain their formidable enemy. Underneath the sketch is written" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Mighty King." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Made the Caffre boy behind him pull the deadly trigger." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dropped upon his right knee,--brought his firelock to the charging position." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By a succession of enormous bounds, the animal keeps far ahead." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vengeance." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your fox is gone!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nep was properly lauded and caressed for his sagacity; and Sir H----d was so satisfied that he would always fetch back the fox perfectly uninjured and unworried, however much excited in the chase, that the next day, after turning out Reynard, he permitted the officers to animate...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The dog was descried, with the end of the rope in his mouth, forcibly dragging along the disappointed fox." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Muta's sad fate is recorded in the 462d page of my Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition of 1833-4-5, and she may be seen in the mouth of the white wolf that killed her, safely housed in a glass case within the walls of the United Service Institution." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Suwarrow, --martial names! yet not inappropriate, you will think, when you hear some of their feats of strategy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Captain," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Schiehallion;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Suwarrow bore this for some time with greater _apparent_ patience than the gentlemen. On one occasion, however, when the inferiority of the ground they were compelled to take was more than usually obvious," }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sporting Magazine for May, 1834, a likeness is given of an admirable pointer named" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rap, of whom it is recorded that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shot, you see, _pointed_ and _hunted_ on alternate days. A little bitch, that I knew, would, on the same day, set alternately different kinds of game, according to the wishes of her master. She belonged to a Mr. B----e, near Templemore, and, with the exception that she had no es...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Difficult to procure even in Russia of a pure breed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Guy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BACKING" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sportsman in France. --527. Instance of Dog's spontaneously heading, and thus intercepting, red-legged Partridges.--528, 529. M----i's" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Albert volunteering to head Guinea-birds.--530. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Toho, in an earnest, quiet voice, and carrying your gun as if you were prepared to shoot. He will soon begin, I really must say it, to _back you_,--for he actually will be backing you, ludicrous as the expression may sound. After a few times he will do so on the signal, without ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And took a random chance shot." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sportsman in France," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On gaining some still higher ground, the dog drew and stood. She was walked up to, but to my astonishment we found no birds. She was encouraged, and with great difficulty coaxed off her point. She kept drawing on, but with the same ill-success. I must confess I was for the momen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain's companion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Suwarrow. The dog" }, { "from": "human", "value": "a pack for some time very patiently, but suddenly darted off for a considerable distance to the right and dropped into a long hag, through the mazes of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marshal soon perceived that he had no chance of being enabled by a regular pursuit to bring his artillery to bear upon the retreating party; he, therefore, resorted to a novel strategy to lull them into fancied security, and induce them to halt. He at once made a feint of abando...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of a covey which is to leeward of him,--instead of letting him" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BEAT." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "be done by" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Finder. --542. Captain J----n's three Dogs that alternately retrieved as ordered.--543. Such an Education could be given, but unnecessary.--544. Seeking Dead with two Dogs; W...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he will henceforth search with redoubled zeal, from the delight he will experience in being permitted to carry his game. Moreover, the season's shooting, without lifting, will have so thoroughly confirmed him in the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "that the increased[9...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With more dogs than one the bird would, almost to a certainty, be torn." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don, go fetch it. Don went forward to obey." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stop Don. Don halted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Carlo, fetch the bird. Carlo advanced." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stop, Carlo. Carlo obeyed." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dead, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Find. I remember, also, hearing of a retrieving setter that on one occasion pointed a fresh bird, still retaining in her mouth the winged partridge which she was carrying,--and of a pointer who did the same when he was bringing...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is this! However, if you shoot much in cover, I admit that a regular retriever which can be worked in perfect silence, never refusing to come in when he is merely signalled to, or, if out of sight, softly whistled to, is better[100] (particularly when you employ beaters), but ev...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Venus --honourable mention is made of her in 99--a very celebrated dog, had an invaluable quality as a retriever, though the very opposite of the range I have been recommending. He disturbed as little ground as possible during his search, and _no fresh ground returning_. After r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Accoutred as I was I plunged in and bade him follow." } ]