Chapter XXVII: Appendix: NOTE TO 65.--Covers.--Shooting.--Loading (5)

[112: An expeditious method, as is admitted in 191, but there, I think, all praise ceases.--W. N. H.]

[113: Doubtless a good plan; perhaps the best plan with a bold dog whose initiatory education has been neglected--and who, in consequence, will not watch for your signals, nor yet look to you on your whistling; but the cord might be longer, and the boy should follow the dog to allow of his range being more extended.--W. N. H.]

[114: Meaning the spike-collar described in 300 of this, and 136 of first edition. No mention was made in that edition of the milder collar now spoken of in 301.--W. N. H.]

[115: In the correctness of this reasoning I fully concur.--W. N. H.]

[116: See end of 448.]

[117: If you are attacked by a dog when you have the good fortune to be armed with a shilelagh, do not hit him across the head and eyes; bear in mind that the front part of his fore-legs is a far more vulnerable and sensitive spot. One or two well applied blows upon that unprotected place will generally disable the strongest dog. Consider how feelingly alive your own shins are to the slightest rap. I have in India seen a vicious horse quite cowed under such discipline, and a really savage nag in that country is, to use an expression common among the natives, a fellow who would "eat one to the very turban." They will sometimes cure a biter by letting him seize a leg of mutton burning hot off the fire--not so expensive a remedy as you may think, where sheep, wool, or rather hair and all, are constantly sold at 2_s._ each,--I will not describe how poor,--I have lifted them up, one in each hand, to judge of their comparative weight. A country bred horse may be conquered by harsh means; but a true Arab never. It is rare to find one that is not sweet-tempered; but when he is vicious, his high spirit and great courage make him quite indomitable.

With a stout stick, a better defence than you may at first imagine can be made against the attack of a vicious bull. Smart blows struck on the _tip_ of his horns seem to cause a jar painfully felt at the roots. Mr. B----n, of A----n, when he was charged in the middle of a large field by a bull which soon afterwards killed a man, adopting this plan, beat off the savage animal, though it several times renewed its attacks.]

[118: If my reader is a youngster, he ought to take this as a hint to mind where he treads when he traverses a turnip-field.]

[119: The common sobriquet of the boy in charge.]

[120: Clover does not retain the wet like common grass, and it affords some shade in hot weather to the very young birds.]

[121: Until the young birds recover do not let them have access to any water in which alum is not dissolved in the proportion of a lump about the size of a walnut to half a gallon of water--also mix such a quantity of common salt in their food, that the stimulant therein is quite perceptible to your taste, and feed more sparingly than usual.]

[122: Principally Indian corn-meal. When the chickens are older, the grain is merely bruised. To full-grown birds of a large species, it is given whole.]

[123: For reasons already given, I think some animal food should be added.--W. N. H.]

[124: French eggs, which he purchased cheap in large quantities from an importing house at Folkestone.]

Transcriber's Notes:

Original accentuation has been retained except for some inconsistent diacritical marks in the original; the three instances are given below:

(a) In the List of Illustrations: THLEW-ĔE-CHOH-DEZETH

(b) In the illustration caption; THLEW-EE-CHOH-DEZETH

(c) In the text: Thlew-ĕe-chōh-dezeth.

All instances have been standardised as this last example.

Typographical errors corrected:

rages changed to ranges in paragraph 87
Impropropriety changed to Impropriety
recals changed to recalls
sidge changed to side
wil changed to will
836(date) changed to 1836
implicity changed to implicitly
Schichallion changed to Schiehallion
morever changed to moreover for consistency
cares changed to cures in paragraph 293

Unusual spelling retained:

immoveably
villanous and villany
In the Chapter XIII sub-heading, and the advertisments 'receipt'
is used rather than 'recipe', which is used elsewhere. Both words
having the same meaning in the context.

In the original there were two instances of paragraph 55. The first instance has been renumbered as the 'missing' paragraph 54.

Paragraph 207 was not numbered in the original and has not been changed.

In the original there were 2 instances of paragraph 102, none of 103. Second instance of 102. renumbered to 103. which agrees with chapter heading.

Some illustration titles do not match the List of Illustrations.

In paragraph 44 the reference to 'XI. of paragraph 171' should refer to 'XI. of paragraph 141', and has been corrected.

End of Project Gutenberg's Dog Breaking, by William Nelson Hutchinson