A PREFACE TO TRAILING

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A PREFACE TO TRAILING : Page 186
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It would prove useless to proceed with the followinglessons in TRAILING unless the dog possessed athorough knowledge of the lessons already explained.More harm than good would result if the next succeedinglesson were started with a dog just superficially trained,and lacking the art of perfect execution in any of the fore-going exercises.

All of the lessons that have been studied up to this pointare essential for the purpose of working up to successfulTRAILING, and many failures attributable to the in-correct execution of some. Especially is this true in thecase of the amateur with his first dog, if he happens to belucky enough to own a smart specimen which picks upcommands readily.