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C KUNOPBDIA. A PRACTICAL ESSAY ON BREAKING OR TRAINING ART OF SHOOTING FLYING. IX WHICD TBB 1, ATTEIL IS REDUCED TO RULE, THE FORRIER INCULCATED ON PRINCIPLE. BY TIiE LATE WILLIAR, IEOBSOK, ESQ. OF EDEN-WALL, CUMBEKLAKD. LONDON printea - itting3ant, otlt frtet, FOR THE EDITOR AND SOLD BY J.CALLOW, CROWEJ COURT, SOHCJ AND WHITTINGHAM AND ARLISS, 56, PATERNOSTEh KoIV - 1814. - si vis mc cavere, cavendum est Irimnm ipsi tibi CONTENTS. ESSAY ON BREAK1ATG THE EArGLISII SPANIEL, -c. Pc INTRODUCTION . 1 Novitiate of the pqil, and preparatory treatment by the tutor . . S Prefatory breaking not approved . 7 PreZkinury infroauction to game how far expedient 3 Going on duty . 20 Means of acquiring command . . - Throw of to hunt . . l1 Pupil kept up in form.. . Puzzle-pcg, . 12 QUARTRRI NG the ground . . 13 Giving the rudiments . 14 How further managed . - . . 17 Porm and mode of the evolution required Its importaice . . - Diagram for the purpose of showing and of cor- recting errors in beat . . 18 hletlod of acquiring a direction of the range . 21 Stubble and broken ground to be avoided, in giving tha first ideas of outline . St a CONTEXTS. Progress of a haunt . . . 53 Working out a retrieve . . 54 Bird found winged.. . Conduct in approaching it . 55 Bird again sprung, Jutters qf, and aeized . . 56 ApoIogeticaI note for a friendly admonition . - Severity of discipline necessary . . 57 Case varied, requiring the tutors judgment . 58 Bird . mid, and . ttentian to the pupil necessary . 69 Another note of admonition to the tutor . . - Bird killed, and pupil dashes.. . Treatment GO Pwpil jnally m, and reularly brought up to the deadBird, . - Last severe trial of his endurance, and conclusive solemnity. 61 A smap of aneient morality . . Q2 Inaccuracies in language, a grievous impediment to advancement in knowledge, . G4 Blmphemy, not necessary to make rt Man intelligible with a conclusive remonstrance against swearing . One qualification necessary in a tutor . B5 THE VOCARULARY. COME IN, C .... BACK. ..HEY AWAY, C. . - G WARE HARE, C.. . WARE LARK . . 68 GONE, GONE.. .HOLD UP... HAVE A CARE ., 69 TAKE HEED or, TO HO . F . 70 WARE CHASE.. . DOWN CHARGE . L 71 SEEK DEAD ., . . 72 ARE BIRD...DEAD, TARE DEAD m 73 DOWN . . . . 74 Sttbidiag expktiuts . r- I J viil CONTENTS. Pus1 Abstrdct of duties, as contairled in the vocabulary, referred .to their previous illustration . 76 77 Further admonitions, of less general application . 86 hlxr his, a decalogne of . SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTERS. On Blinking . Conjmatiim oJ Point, and Leding up to Game 89 . 10o On Hunting in Cornpay, Brigading in tlac Field, c, 12-2 IAriZRUCTIUNS FOR ATTAINING THE ART OF SHOOTING FL YING, Introllarctqaddress ... Subject proposed . . 161 Stock of the gun, imperfect knowledge of just fitting, the cause of much indecision, and consequent error . . 165 Again referred to, in note . . 168 Length of but recommended . . - Portrait of unskilful advance to point . . 186 A better example offered for imitation - Bbnder at a black cock.. . Swearing not alIowabIe, out, of professional language - 167 Approach to game, or advance to ponst . . 168 Arrival within chance of spring . . 169 TaRefmm, and handle arms . . 170 Balance of position being that station upon the lower limbs, which admits of using the upper oues to most advantage . - CONTENTS. ix Page A submission to an actual drilling of the person of the shooter necessary, and itsefficacy demonstrated I71 AD appeal to the drill, for the correction of error on the part of a more advanced pupil, indispensable 173 THE DRILL EXERCISE. Difficulty of conveying, by words alone, any adequate idea of thc methods of personal motion . . 174 Apology for attempting it on the present occasion l75 CARRY ARMS.. .Inverted bearing of the barrel pro- posed and described . . 176 The superior ease and elegance of this carriage, and its convenience for the shot indicated ...
