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[ { "from": "human", "value": "old Dogs spontaneously take _judicious_ liberties. Easier to teach accomplishments than cure faults." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Self-hunter's example most dangerous.--565. Fine range and perseverance attained. Irish red setters.--566. Good condition; exercise on ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dogs that are constantly with their masters acquire a wonderful degree of penetration, and much may be done through the medium of their affections. I attribute the extraordinary sagacity of the buckhound to the manner in which he is treated. He is the constant companion of his i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The tricks consisted of the usual routine of adding up figures, spelling short words, and finding the first letter of any town named by one of the company. The last trick was very cleverly done, and puzzled us very much, as we--_i.e._ the grown-up part of the audience--were most...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SELF-HUNTING." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At that advanced time of life, too, a few occasional irregularities in the field may be innocuously permitted. The steadiest dogs will, at times, deviate from the usual routine of their business, sagaciously thinking that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I went to town purposely to see him operate upon a clutch. The method is very simple. Take a small piece of floss silk, and draw the end through a needle. On about the middle of the silk place some matter (when in a proper state) extracted from a child's arm. Unfold (throw back)...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am now satisfied with the extent of my pupil's acquirements, and have neither leisure nor inclination to teach him more;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "JOSH. LANG." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "may not so readily observe them, and in consequence beat a retreat. By-the-bye, my young friend, should you wish your host to give you another invitation to his covers never let him see you carrying your barrels horizontally. If you are a bit of a soldier you will know what I me...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It should be of a dark colour, not to betray so readily the movements of his master to interested parties. He says he once owned one, a bull-terrier, that was, to again quote the old man's words," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "that it was incredible the quantity of g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but it was not until their breeding season the following spring, when he was favoured in his operations by a frost, that he succeeded in capturing them in considerable numbers. On the ground becoming hard, he, for nearly a fortnight, fed certain spots on the banks of the Teviot ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Moor and the Loch." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Billyducks" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Buyers make thieves," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Game-birds and Wildfowl," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The larger the compartments, he says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "an attendant to visit them once (and but once) a day, to take in the food of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ") kept in an unroofed enclosure,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "About the fourth season a hen's oviparous powers begin to decline, although her maternal qualifications, in other respects, do not deteriorate until a much later period. It is, therefore, of consequence to enlist, occasionally, a few r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But the most formidable disease from which the young pheasant suffers is that known by the name of 'the gapes:'--so termed from the frequent gaping efforts of the bird to inhale a mouthful of air. Chickens and turkeys are equally liable to be affected by it; and it may be remark...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One well-trained bloodhound will be more useful." } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "well, as described in 43. He should, too, be perfected in following quietly at" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Growler" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Backing" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bar," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beat," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beckon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heel," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ben," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Breaking fence" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Munito," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Care," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Carrying and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Caution," } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dash," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Down see" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drop." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Down charge," } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Drop, a better word than" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Down," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Toho" } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fence, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ware fence," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fetching and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Find," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Finder" } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Flown," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Footing" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Forward," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gone," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grouse's" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heel," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Médor's," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Down charge," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Left," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lifting" } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Munito" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Muta," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Niger's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No better word than" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ware," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nosing" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Point dead," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Puzzling" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Range. _See_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Beat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Rating" } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Richelieu," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Toho and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Drop," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Roading," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Finder," } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Self-hunting," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suwarrow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Taffy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Toho," } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Up," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ware, not so good word as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No," } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quarterly Review." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE TIMES." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quarterly Review." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quarterly Review." } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Practice of Divine Love." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Manual of Prayer and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Practice of Divine Love." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vals" } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Letters from the Baltic." } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forty-Five;" } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life of Bishop Ken." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE TIMES. 2 Vols. 8_s._ MUSIC AND DRESS. 1_s._ LAYARD'S ACCOUNT OF NINEVEH. 5_s._ MILMAN'S FALL OF JERUSALEM. 1_s._ MAHON'S" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "FORTY-FIVE." } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quarterly Review." } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quarterly Review." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Book of the Roman Catholic Church;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Self-Help." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Since the publication of the last edition, Lieutenant-Col. Hutchinson's valuable work on 'Dog-breaking' has appeared. It is a perfect _vade mecum_ for both Sportsmen and Keeper, and I have great pleasure in giving a cordial welcome to a Work which so ably supplies my own deficie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ware" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "to use an American expression,--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Toho before the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drop. Another is that the dog may acquire the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Toho before he has run the chance of being cowed in learning the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drop. If the latter w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Imitative creatures!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Find," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as well as" } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Flick, be it observed, is a synonym for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fur," } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little-brush, a worthy son of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dearest-of-men," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Leeward" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Immediately before heavy rain there frequently is none. It is undeniable that moisture will at one time destroy it,--at another bring it. That on certain days--in slight frost, for instance,--setters will recognise it better than pointers, and, on the other hand, that the nose o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as the fascinating Tommy Moore styles her, although now well supplied with all the necessaries of life, especially since the improvements in husbandry, introduced by its late excellent governor, Colonel R----d (now Sir William), was formerly but little better provided with fresh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Restless," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rod and Line" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bess and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Diver," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Field Sports in the United States and British Provinces, by Frank Forester." } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "whenever the dog could observe it, should supersede the word" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may fancy him a little one now, but wait till you see him move, and then you'll think him a big one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Suwarrow's" } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dead (preceding the command" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Find )--that joyous, exciting note of triumph--ought never to be lessened by being employed, as I have heard it, to stimulate a dog to hunt when no bird is down; or, like the shepherd-boy's cry of" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Toho, rather than" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drop, --your object now being to make him stand at, and prevent his mouthing game; for you are satisfied that he would have" } ]
47808
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "too, with the nose carried high to avoid strong heather--a valuable instructor), whereas the dog broken on partridge often becomes impatient, and breaks away when he first finds grouse. The former dog, moreover, will learn not to" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give three{1} ounces of cold drawn linseed oil in a cold mash every alternate night for a fortnight. If you judge it advisable, repeat the same after an interval of a fortnight. The good effects of the oil are not immediately visible, but in about a month the horse's coat will b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harry Hieover, supports (in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Practical Horsemanship" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I now take him where sheep are wild, but never get near enough to set them running. But suppose they were to do so, I am prepared, for I have him in a cord some twenty yards long. This length gives him something of a feeling of liberty. If he looks towards the flock, 'Ware sheep...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dialogues on Instinct, gives anecdotes showing the great sagacity of animals. He writes--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The cunning of foxes is proverbial; but I know not if it was ever more remarkably displayed than in the Duke of Beaufort's country; where Reynard,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Increased: the gratification of carrying being far greater than that of merely" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Field Sports in the United States, &c.," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dogs, their Management," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't get an experienced keeper wedded to his own customs and prejudices; but engage a young man fond of sport. Break _him_ to your mind; and then, and not until then, will you have _dogs_ broken to your mind." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to examine his traps, it would be wrong not to mention the serviceable" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Snap, a white, short-haired terrier belonging to a gamekeeper of Mr. R----e's, who for many years has sat as member for Dover. The little animal's personal qualities...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The aeroplane's future as a carrier of mail." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wanted to ask her a question or two about several things," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's not a bit of use scolding him--I found that out long ago," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have been hearing noises over there, breaking of branches and shouts." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE STAGE" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come away, Death, in 1901, _The Times_ said of it that it was" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chris Wilson, as he was known to hosts of friends in Bohemian circles, was born at Melbourne, in Derbyshire, on October 7, 1874. He came of musical stock on both sides. Many stories, based on undoubted fact, are current as to the boy's proficiency on the pianoforte, even before ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On the Ground," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take, oh take those lips away (1906), and a duet," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was a Lover and his Lass (1907);" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rest in Peace (words by W. Melville, 1900);" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chris" } ]
35721
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come away, Death" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "German Folk-Songs" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Coriolan" } ]